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'Twas the "Consolation" of Malherbe, and, as Calvert sang, the tenderness and melancholy beauty of both words and music struck the whole company into silence: "'Mais elle était du monde où les plus belles choses Ont le pire destin, Et, rose, elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses L'espace d'un matin.
'The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his ineffectual fire. Pyramus. This will put them out of fear. Shake-spear. 'Truth and reason are common to every one, and are no more his who spoke them first, than his who spoke them after. Who follows another follows nothing, finds nothing, seeks nothing.
They then arose; and, after taking a matin ablution in the creek, returned to the hut to partake of their breakfast, which was being prepared by Joey; while Bob Smithers' stock-man brought in the horses.
Further conversation was prevented by the appearance of a French lieutenant who had observed the trouble. "Matin!" he ordered. "Back to your post at once, sir." The latter saluted respectfully enough, but he gave Hal another evil look as he walked away. "He's no friend of yours, that's sure," said the young French officer to Hal, with a smile. "I am glad to say he's not," replied Hal, quietly.
Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl; and, old as I am, I feared to have shame in encountering you. But, by my faith, a Saxon boy of twelve, in my time, would not so soon have relinquished his goblet." The Prior had his own reasons, however, for persevering in the course of temperance which he had adopted.
They had not seen or tasted such wonderful stuff since the Bosche occupation, and their eyes sparkled with pleasure on tasting it again. I had brought copies of the Echo de Paris, Journal, Matin and other French papers, and these were the first they had seen for two years. The farmer declared it was like a man awakening from a long sleep. "We'll turn in," I said.
In Armentières a few old men lent their aid in keeping up the pretense, but the feeble little trickle of civilian life made scarcely an impression in the broad current of military activity. A solitary postman, with a mere handful of letters, made his morning rounds of echoing streets, and a bent old man with newspapers hobbled slowly along the Rue Sadi-Carnot shouting, "Le Matin!
"It is the war chime, not the matin bell, you shall hear this morning," said one of his brethren. "That is better mea culpa," said Guthlac, clapping his hand on his mouth to stop his own warlike ejaculation. Then came Wulfhere back, swiftly. Barely a mile were they from the hill, he said, and coming on quickly in loose order.
During the spring and summer months, matin worship was constantly performed by a multitudinous choir, and praises were chanted by tiny-throated warblers, raising their notes upon the deep, organ base, rolled into the harmony by the grand old pines.
The lark was singing in the sky, the grasshopper had begun its chirp, the rills and rivulets that splashed or trickled from the hills, gave out their indistinct murmur; whilst, heard far above these voices of nature, the toll of the matin bell resounded through the valley, calling the devoutly disposed to their morning thanksgiving.
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