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Thou wert, I say, in the house of Læca; and many whom I now see around me, with trim and well-curled beards, with long-sleeved tunics and air-woven togas, many whom I could name, and will, if needs be, were there with thee! "What beverage didst thou send around? what oath didst thou administer, thou to thy foul associates? and on the altar of what God?
At rare intervals it beamed upon us from some still reach or dark cover, and won from us our best attention in return. The day was quite spent before we had pitched our air-woven tent and prepared our dinner, and we gathered boughs for our bed in the gloaming. Breakfast had to be caught in the morning and was not served early, so that it was nine o'clock before we were in motion.
But a little philosophy should teach us to rid ourselves of those air-woven fetters that mortals hang round themselves, spending their lives in misery under the mere imagination of weight. Your mind, which seizes ideas so readily, my Romola, is able to discriminate between substantial good and these brain-wrought fantasies.
At rare intervals it beamed upon us from some still reach or dark cover, and won from us our best attention in return. The day was quite spent before we had pitched our air-woven tent and prepared our dinner, and we gathered boughs for our bed in the gloaming. Breakfast had to be caught in the morning and was not served early, so that it was nine o'clock before we were in motion.
Flowers, "the air-woven children of light," are always beautiful, but especially so at sea, no greater contrast being possible than that between these winsome blossoms and the cold, fretful element which surrounds the ocean-bound ship. Voyage through the Mediterranean. Gibraltar on Sunday. Beautiful Alameda. Visit to the Famous Fortress. Wild Monkeys. Cannon and Flowers. Tangier. Morocco.
The fruits and flowers of the American Archipelago "air-woven children of light" are not only lavishly prolific, but perfect of their kind. No wonder that scientists and botanists become poetical in their descriptions of these regions. The royal palm, so often alluded to, grows to the height of seventy feet, more or less.
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