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If there was any colour about her costume it was just a bit of blue perhaps. No exertion seemed to distress her. In the morning when she came out on the verandah for the first look westward, Sumatra way, over the sea, she seemed as fresh and sparkling as a dewdrop. But a dewdrop is evanescent, and there was nothing evanescent about Freya.
They must be servant some day." "Amen!" responded Asher Aydelot, and the Sabbath service ended. Two weeks later Darley Champers came again to the barren valley and met the settlers in the sod schoolhouse. Not a cloud had yet scarred the heavens, not a dewdrop had glistened in the morning sunlight. Clearly, August was outranking July as king of a season of glaring light and withering heat.
First she saw a tiny rainbow in a dewdrop that hung on a blade of grass; then she watched a frisky calf come down to drink on the other side of the brook, and laughed to see him scamper away with his tail in the air. Close by grew a pitcher-plant; and a yellow butterfly sat on the edge, bathing its feet, Daisy said.
But at least we have passed through the gates, and have learnt that there is a world of wonder which we may visit if we will; and that it lies quite close to us, hidden in every dewdrop and gust of wind, in every brook and valley, in every little plant or animal.
"'We shall be Part of the mighty universal whole, And through all icons mix and mingle with the Kosmic Soul!" Or to make matters clearer still: "'Om, mani Padma, Om! the dewdrop slips Into the shining sea!" Even a sponge can hold only so much, and I fell back or shall I say forward in the path of progress to rest in the dimness of agnosticism.
The vision of conscience reveals new possibilities of character, and these give duty. The vision of the heart reveals new possibilities of friendship, and these give the home. As the sun standing upon the horizon orbs itself, first in each dewdrop, and afterward lifts the whole earth forward, so the ideal repeats itself, first in the individual heart, and afterward lifts all society forward.
"Sound for most of us lies between, say, thirty and many thousand vibrations per second the cry of the earthquake and the cricket; it is our limitation that renders the voice of the dewdrop and the voice of the planet alike inaudible. We even mistake a measure of noise like a continuous millwheel or a river, say for silence, when in reality there is no such thing as perfect silence.
197 By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess. 198 The cricket's chirp and the patter of rain come to me through the dark, like the rustle of dreams from my past youth. 199 "I have lost my dewdrop," cries the flower to the morning sky that has lost all its stars. 200 The burning log bursts in flame and cries, "This is my flower, my death."
Perhaps the most successful was a small performance of 'The Babes in the Wood, given by the Castleton children, with Perugia and Gabriel, lovely in Elizabethan costume, as 'the babes' John and Jane; Madox and Constable as the two villains 'Daggersdrawn' and 'Triggertight, who abandoned them in the wood; and Lilith as the beneficent fairy 'Dewdrop, who found them and whisked them away to bonny Elfland.
Le Croix, bursting into a hearty laugh, "that is a capital joke; my little dewdrop talk of bringing up a child! Why, darling, you would tire of him in a week." "Oh no, Pa, I wouldn't! Just try me; if it is only for a week." "Why, Sunbeam, it is impossible. Who ever heard of such a thing as a Negro being palmed upon society as a white person?" "Negro!
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