"As full of unquestioning and unfaltering faith in him, the girl sat motionless and heard him out. Then silently rose, and turned her boundlessly confiding brow to him. He kissed it thrice, and without another syllable left the place."
-- Herman Melville, Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852).
C.— "Is anything so beautiful as unbounded faith?"
F.— "Listen! that's 'to horse.'"
C.— "Answer me then!"
F.— "Pshaw!—Of course it's beautiful; or rather, sublime."
C.— "It is the very attribute of human love!"
--Scenes Beyond the Western Border, Southern Literary Messenger Volume 19, March 1853; and
Scenes and Adventures in the Army (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1857 and 1859) page 387.
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