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They greeted the earth with a kiss, and wherever they placed their feet white flowers sprung up from beneath the snow. Hand in hand they approached the old ice-man, Winter, embraced him and clung to his breast; and as they did so, in a moment all three were enveloped in a thick, damp mist, dark and heavy, that closed over them like a veil.
He said he lives in New York, and drives an ice-wagon and is an ice-man. He said he was glad to have the pleasure of our acquaintance. He is, I think, the first ice-man I have ever met. He reminds me very much of the Romanoffs, the Grand Dukes of the younger branch, I mean. But he says he is not connected with them, so far as he knows. He said his name is Peters.
One cannot say now that there is not greenness in the grass; not in the wide fields, to be sure, but on lawns and banks sloping south. The dark-spotted leaves of the dog-tooth violet begin to show. Even Fahrenheit's contrivance joins in the upward movement: the mercury has suddenly gone up from thirty degrees to sixty-five degrees. It is time for the ice-man.
One cannot say now that there is not greenness in the grass; not in the wide fields, to be sure, but on lawns and banks sloping south. The dark-spotted leaves of the dog-tooth violet begin to show. Even Fahrenheit's contrivance joins in the upward movement: the mercury has suddenly gone up from thirty degrees to sixty-five degrees. It is time for the ice-man.
But either of these would be afraid of exposing their vehicles to the heating orb of day, the milkman afraid of turning the milk, the ice-man timorous of melting his ice, and they probably avoid those directions where they shall meet the sun's rays. The student, who might inform us, has been burning the midnight oil. The student is not in the mood to consider the early sun.
Aren't these children awful? Get away, you little brutes! If you touch me, I'll fall. Here, give me change," she said to the ice-man, holding out a twenty-pfennig piece. Maurice saw that she was unusually excited, and as soon as he had drawn her out of reach of the children, asked her the reason. "I've something interesting to tell you, Maurice."
Yet life had a relish to it again; she was free, though she did not look at it in that light; she was happier in a quiet fashion than she had ever been, though she would not have acknowledged it to herself. She wondered that she had the heart to laugh when the ice-man made love to her.
The procession passed on, and at ten minutes past twelve everybody had gone back to sleep again. "In the afternoon the interpreter came around and smiled as he laid his hand on the big red jar we usually kept ice-water in. "'The ice-man didn't call to-day, says I. 'What's the matter with everything, Sancho? "'Ah, yes, says the liver-colored linguist. 'They just tell me in the town.
The wife of the colonel might return the call of the grocer's wife if she made a good appearance, but the latter would under no circumstances be invited to a function at the camp or post. The undertaker, the dentist, the ice-man, the retail shoe man are under the ban. Certain kinds of business appear to have certain social rights.
Most of them perjured themselves with the statement that they had come to see about a place for another girl. After the initial lot they scattered along through the forenoon. Tom had got up, meantime, and was leaning on the front window-sill watching hungrily for the ice-man.
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