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She succeeded in capturing this wanderer in her straw hat, over which she drew her sun-veil. After this notable capture she returned demurely to Kenelm's side. "Do you collect insects?" said that philosopher, as much surprised as it was his nature to be at anything. "Only butterflies," answered Lily; "they are not insects, you know; they are souls."
Here, indeed, as we shall find, no one walks to his township, or rides to see a neighbour, he jumps into his boat and rows or sails wherever he wants to go. As the Lily steams down the Kaipara, we get a better idea of the bush than our previous day's coach-ride had given us.
"On Monday evening the celebrated fire-works were let off from the Castle of St. Angelo; they were said to be, in some respects more brilliant than usual. I certainly never saw any fireworks comparable to them for beauty. The Girandola is a discharge of many thousands of rockets at once, which of course fall back, like the leaves of a lily, and form for a minute a very beautiful picture.
Well Selden had twice been ready to stake his faith on Lily Bart; but the third trial had been too severe for his endurance. The very quality of his love had made it the more impossible to recall to life. If it had been a simple instinct of the blood, the power of her beauty might have revived it.
"That is it, that is it!" said the baron, defending his position, "a little beast in the guise of an angel the singing of chansonettes with such a devil in the body and at the same time a complexion, a look, a smile, which scatters a kind of mystic, lily perfume. This is precisely that dissonance, that snap, that mystery with which she has conquered Europe.
But she only said: "I am not afraid." On another occasion this was about a month after they became engaged Maurice said: "Lily, when shall we be married?" She glanced up at him, and saw that he was paler even than usual, and that his face looked drawn with fatigue. "Whenever you wish," she answered. "Let it be soon," he said.
"Remember too, Mike, that God will hear my prayers, and grant them too, as He has promised," exclaimed Lily; "what an encouragement it is to know that He does hear faithful prayer, and never fails to attend to it." As may be supposed, this was not the whole of our conversation.
But Stephen Crowley stooped before a lovely carnation, and smelled, and smelled, drawing in long breaths, as though he meant to take its fragrance all away with him; and Nimble Dick picked up the straying end of an ivy, and restored it to its support again, in a way that was not to be lost sight of by one who was looking for hearts; and Dirk Colson brushed back his matted hair and stood long before a great, pure lily, and looked down into its heart with an expression on his face that his teacher never forgot.
Others gazed with simple, sad wistfulness upon the slender figure, pale, sweet face, and dark eyes of the young girl, feeling that to have talk with such a fairy-like creature was a happiness too great to ever be their lot. And when she had passed they went back to work with a sigh and feeling of loss. As for Lily, she felt a pang of pity for these people.
'It is not I only who think most highly of child-like unquestioning faith, Maurice, said Claude 'faith, that is based upon love and reverence, added he to Lily. 'But come, the shower is over, and philosophers, or no philosophers, I invite you to walk in the wood. 'Aye, said Maurice, 'I daresay I can find some of the Arachne species there.
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