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Marian has been with me this morning." "What! Has she gone?" said Douglas. "Why?" said Mrs. Douglas. "Did you know she was coming?" "She mentioned to me that she intended to come," he replied, carelessly; "but she bade me not to tell you." "That accounts for your two visits. Well, Sholto, I do not blame you for spending your time in gayer places than this."
She was gayer in public, but her spirits were very low when alone with Marian; and now and then the conversation flagged, till she sat for full half an hour, her head on her hand, without a word.
Again the familiar look of things departed as they wandered about the wider, gayer streets.
He took out almost reverently a pair of high-heeled boots with purple tops, a pair of spurs, a gay shirt, a gayer neckerchief, a broad-brimmed hat, a leather holster, and most impressive of all a pair of goatskin chaps dyed a violent maroon. All these he excitedly donned, the spurs last. Then he clambered down the ladder from the loft, somewhat impeded by the spurs, and went into the kitchen.
So riding, he came to the heart of the city a vast open space, where the shops seemed brighter, the crowds gayer; and, by contrast, the human rag and bone heaps, beggars and cripples, more terrible to behold. Here the first ray of actual recognition flashed through the haze of familiar sensations.
I have said they were in great spirits, particularly Count Theodore; indeed he was generally the gayer of the pair his sister being evidently the more prudent and in this respect they resembled the Lorenskis. Many a jest, however, on the non-appearance of the wolves went round our sledge, of which I remember nothing now except that we all laughed till the old wood rang.
Paul's was very trifling, the solemn pines of the church-yard blending, from many points, with the gayer trees in the grounds of the former; and as the buildings in this part of the village were few, the whole of the bridal train entered the tower, unobserved by the eyes of the curious.
That superstition gave licence and play to his full memory and glowing fancy; and Shakspeare Spenser Ariosto the magic of each mighty master of Fairy Realm he evoked, and poured into her transported ear. It was precisely such arts, which to a gayer and more worldly nature than Madeline's might have seemed but wearisome, that arrested and won her imaginative and high-wrought mind.
At every breath he drew he felt freer and gayer. Suddenly there was a rustling at the tent-door. He seized his two-handed sword, but did not raise it, for a beloved voice he recognized, called softly: "Ulrich, Ulrich, it is I!" He started up, hastily threw on his doublet, rushed towards her, clasped her in his arms, and let her stroke his curls, kiss his cheeks and eyes, as in the old happy days.
"No one could disentangle fact and fiction and affection in them. "Some years ago," he said one day to Professor Hardage, "I was a good deal gayer than I am now and so was he. We cemented a friendship in a certain way, no matter what: that is a story I'm not going to tell. And he came to live with me on that footing of friendship.
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