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Often a glance, concealed from other eyes, by which they conveyed to each other their emotions, was like a poem of bitter melancholy. The sight of a cloudless sky, the fragrance of flowers, a turn in the garden, arm in arm, these were their joys. The finishing of a piece of embroidery was to them a source of enjoyment.
"Calypso's own fragrance," he thought to himself remembering the intimate perfume of her hair and gown as she passed so near to him in the lantern light when he had spoken without discretion.
"She hathn't been there for an hour," thought he; "a reek o' milk, and not my lassie." Very few human beings have such fragrance of good-will as milk. The farmer knew that he had gone too far in speaking coarsely of the cow, whose children first forego their food for the benefit of ours, and then become veal to please us.
The fragrance of her, the sacred air in which a loved woman moves, had floated up to him: his by all the laws of hell, in spite of heaven; but his no more. Such nearness and such deprivation to see, to desire, and not to seize flung his wits abroad; from that hour his was a lost soul.
She had begun to move toward the cliffs, he fell into step beside her; they spoke little, a word now and then. The perfume of the mounting sea saturated the night with wild fragrance; dew lay heavy on the lawns; she lifted her skirts enough to clear the grass, heedless that her silk-shod feet were now soaking.
The sun was about to set. An unknown bird sat, far below, in the orange grove and, as if drunk with light and fragrance, chirped sleepily and ended with a fluting tone. Now that the great dread of the last few days was taken from her, that sweet languor the significance of which she could not guess came over her again. Her neighbour had already come home.
A saintly life diffuses a sweet, heavenly fragrance throughout the world, and brings a knowledge of God and the nature of his salvation to the minds of men. Let me exhort you, therefore, to a pure life, a life full of devotion and reverence to God.
The omitted compliment from formal records is the singular fragrance of the flowers strong, sweet, and enticing, though with a drug-like savour, as if rather an artificial addition than a provision of Nature. During December the perfume hangs heavily about the trees, being specially virile in the cool of evening and morning.
We may consider antiquity from a scientific point of view; we may try to look at what has happened with the eye of a historian, or to arrange and compare the linguistic forms of ancient masterpieces, to bring them at all events under a morphological law; but we always lose the wonderful creative force, the real fragrance, of the atmosphere of antiquity; we forget that passionate emotion which instinctively drove our meditation and enjoyment back to the Greeks.
To steal from oblivion one more summer of which she would be the warmth, the fragrance, the unprecedented beauty!
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