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A covered path, obscured by vegetation, led through a species of labyrinth to an artificial cave, at the bottom of which, half-paved with shells, moss, and spar, lay the gigantic and half- recumbent statue of a river deity, with its usual attributes that is, its front crowned with water-lilies and sedges, and its ample hand half-resting upon an empty urn.
Instantly every neck was set craning, and every eye was alight with wonder, for there, half-resting upon the sill of the doorway, and half-lying upon the ground with the water streaming everywhere about her, lay the huddled, half-drowned figure of a young woman. "It's it's a woman," cried Pete stupidly, unable to contain his astonishment longer.
Are you hurt?" "No.... I know this place. There's an inn ... if you'll give me your arm it's just across the street." They went very leisurely, her arm under his and his face, suddenly colourless, half-resting against her shoulder. Earlier in the evening there had been a young moon on Isla Water.
Then, listening to the punkah's regular soft swing, she herself fell forward on her arms, half-resting on the bed, half on the chair, until Hasamurti crept in silently and, laughing, lifted her up beside Yasmini and left her there until the two awoke near noon, wondering, in each other's arms.
With these ideas, then, it required deliberation on their part, as well as with us; and we knew that it would be some time before they would act. They, too, were in a dilemma. The hunters obeyed the injunctions of Seguin, and remained silent, waiting upon Rube to deliver his advice. The old trapper stood apart, half-resting upon his rifle, which he clutched with both hands near the muzzle.
Then leaning over the hatch-door, her rosy cheek half-resting on the rough shoulder of her rough husband, was the pretty Mistress Maud, the personification of rustic English beauty; then the picturesque grouping of the old and worn, but still gallant and manly sailors our friend of the wooden legs a little in the fore-ground, supported by the quizzical seaman, and a tall stiff bony-looking "Black Sal" of a woman on the other, whose complexion was contrasted by a snow-white cap, somewhat pointed at the top, which hardly concealed her grizzled hair.
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