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It is the May-time, little brother, and the arbutus will be in bloom the shy, pink blossoms that nestle on the sunny slopes of the rocks and at the roots of the birch-trees. We will gather them you and I and bring them home to deck our lady mother's chamber. The May-bloom it is in the air. How sweet how sweet!"
Issa! the maiden who had gathered her May-bloom in the long ago, and who had given herself and all for love of the stranger within her father's gates; yes, and who had died within that self-same hour upon her lord's breast. And yet if this miracle were indeed the truth it accounted for more than one thing that had troubled him.
And she sang of May-bloom and love; of love that had never come near her and that she would never know; sang, with her eyes upon the beer-stained table, in a public-house amid the backways of Lambeth. Totty Nancarrow was whispering to Thyrza: 'Sing something, old girl! Why shouldn't you? Annie West was also at hand, urging the same. 'Let 'em hear some real singing, Thyrza. There's a dear.
Plainly she had been out flower-hunting; with the aid of his binoculars he could determine that she carried a bunch of the delicate pink-and-white blossoms that we call May-bloom.
Believe me that at some future time I shall answer for them both." It was a sprig of the May-bloom that the cavalier wore in his button-hole; Constans had only time to recognize it when the blood-bay broke into full gallop. The lad flung himself at full length upon the turf, face downward, and lay there motionless.
"The third time?" "That was the day the day of the first May-bloom the Ochre brook and the Doomsmen " The girl's voice faltered. "Yet never a word to me or to your mother?" "It was not my secret," she answered, bravely; and upon that Quinton Edge himself took up the word. "The blame is mine, since I used the peril in which I stood to set a seal upon her lips.
No cunning of glance could see through it; it would have needed a ladder to help any one look over. It was between the may and the June roses. The may-bloom had fallen, and among the hawthorn boughs were the little green bunches that would feed the redwings in autumn.
Again, in Cornwall lilac is termed May-flower, and the narrow-leaved elm, which is worn by the peasant in his hat or button-hole, is called May. Similarly, in Germany, we find the term May-bloom applied to such plants as the king-cup and lily of the valley.
Then, in deadly truth, she heard Quinton Edge blow his whistle, and the darkness closed in upon her. For the second time the Doomsman raised the pipe to his lips. It slipped from his fingers and fell to the garden-table at his side. As he bent to recover it the subtle, uprising scent of the May-bloom struck him like a blow; a dark flush overspread his brow.
"Here," replied a gentler and sweeter voice, as Mary Chilton came forward, a long gray stocking dangling from her hands, and stood in a slant ray of sunshine which lighted her golden hair to a glory, and showed the pure tints of her May-bloom face and clear blue eyes; a lovely English face in its first fresh rapture of morning beauty.
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