They had a superb view of the jagged glacier of Jedke,--black in some parts, and in others white with unmelted snow,--and seeming, as it rose straight up against the sky, to be the majestic monument of some giant Viking.

Presently, at her earnest request, Errington brought his portfolio of Norwegian sketches for Thelma to look at; most of them were excellently well done, and elicited much admiration from the _bonde_.
"It is what I have wondered at all my life," said he, "that skill of the brush dipped in color.

Pictures surprise me as much as poems.

Ah, men are marvellous creatures, when they are once brought to understand that they _are_ men,--not beasts! One will take a few words and harmonize them into a song or a verse that clings to the world for ever; another will mix a few paints and dab a brush in them, and give you a picture that generation after generation shall flock to see.

It is what is called genius,--and genius is a sort of miracle.