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She saw that all things were just, and when the musician said in a low voice: “Will you yet proceed?” “I will!” she said. “Then drink the cup,” he said, “Drink!” She drained the green cup of the lotus leaf until scarcely a drop remained, and with that draught she forgot all things that had been—the garden, the king, the journey and the vision, and the master harper—all were forgotten.
To this he added a great bunch of delicately tinted lotus, and then sat down on the edge of the boat to see what Long would purchase. Tom Long was hard to please; now he would decide on a bunch of delicious golden plantains, and then set them aside in favour of some custard apples.
"'Aye, aye, sir. "'Have ye et your full o' th' lotus? says Bull. "'Hard tack an' salt horse for King Gibney, I yells back. 'I ain't no vegetarian no more, Bull. Do you need a smart mate? "I could hear Bull McGinty chucklin' to himself. "'You young whelp, says Bull. 'I knew you'd outgrow it. They all do, when they're as young as you. I'll send the whaleboat ashore.
Thus she spake, and at his wife's bidding he stepped down out of his bed, and made for his richly dight sword that he kept always hanging on its pin above his bed of cedar. Verily he was reaching out for his new-woven belt, lifting with the other hand the mighty sheath, a work of lotus wood, when lo, the wide chamber was filled again with night.
According to a legend preserved in the Svayambhû Purâṇa, a special divine manifestation occurred in ancient times on an adjoining lake; a miraculous lotus arose on its surface, bearing an image, over which a Caitya was subsequently erected.
And close by them, behold, standeth Krishna, beautiful as gold, like unto the very embodiment of light, possessing the complexion of the blue lotus, like unto a celestial damsel, and resembling the living embodiment of Lakshmi herself."
Evidently this gentle divinity has no enemies; at the feet of the lover of children's ghosts, both creeds unite in tender homage. I said feet. But this subterranean Jizo has only one foot. The carven lotus on which he reposes has been fractured and broken: two great petals are missing; and the right foot, which must have rested upon one of them, has been knocked off at the ankle.
In our rooms, upstairs, all was open to the air; bamboo blinds hung on the sunny side, and through their transparency came warm air and golden threads of light. Today the flowers Chrysantheme had placed in the bronze vases were lotus, and as I entered, my eyes fell upon their wide rosy cups. According to her usual custom, Chrysantheme was lying flat on the floor enjoying her daily siesta.
Even the terrible tragedy which had taken one of our fellows from us could not spoil the actual enjoyment of our visit, sad and touching as the event undoubtedly was. There was always, too, a sufficiently arduous routine of necessary duties to perform, preventing us from degenerating into mere lotus eaters in that delicious afternoon-land.
The sun of the desert had not penetrated that pretty thatch and the forehead was as fair as a lotus flower. Kenkenes caught himself looking sharply at each face as he passed, for it contained somewhat of that for which he sought. As he walked along looking after them he became aware that some one was near him, He turned his head and stopped in his tracks.
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