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Now I have told another lie, and I suppose nay, what better can I hope? that I shall live in the same state of weary, disproportioned retribution to the end of the chapter. These are the thoughts, interspersed and diversified with loud sighs, that are employing my mind one ripe and misty morning a few days later than the incidents last detailed. Barbara is to arrive to-day.
"What right has he got to go to Court?" Mr. Van Diemen Smith inquired, like the foreigner he had become through exile. "Mr. Tinman's bailiff of the town," said Crickledon. "And what was his objection to that glass I smashed?" "He's rather an irritable gentleman," Crickledon murmured, and turned to Crummins. Crummins growled: "He said it was misty, and gave him a twist."
I took Zura by the hand, pulled Jane's sleeve, motioned Kobu toward the door, and together we went softly away. An hour later, when Mr. Hamilton came in, the happiest spot in all the Flowery Kingdom was the little living-room of "The House of the Misty Star." The explanation was all so simple I felt as if I should be sentenced for not thinking of it before.
The proof of these crimes was evolved, in a dim and misty manner, out of a purposely confused recital. No events, however, were recapitulated which have not been described in the course of this history.
Far, far beyond the steeples which rise dimly from the distant town a range of hills; beyond it still, a faint film of blue, the indistinct and misty semblance of towering mountains. To the north a lovely plain that rises a few miles away into a long low ridge which forms the sharp and clear horizon.
The green levels of stiff salt grass closed in upon the breadth of water, and we wound among them, looking across their silence to the deeper silence of the woods that bordered them, the brooding woods, the pines and the liveoaks, misty with the motionless hanging moss, and misty also in that Southern air that deepened when it came among their trunks to a caressing, mysterious, purple veil.
Up the rocky sides from the water's edge, bravely clinging to nook and cranny, running along ledges, hanging trembling to ragged edges, boldly climbing up to the forest, were all spring's myriad tender things wherewith she redeems Nature from winter's ugliness. From the river below came gusts of misty wind, waves of sound of the water's many voices.
What he feared was to reopen one of her wounds. If he gave her a violent jar, or slipped and fell! But the supreme confidence so strangely felt that night admitted no such blunders. The slope before him seemed to swell into obscurity to lose its definite outline in a misty, opaque cloud that shaded into the over-shadowing wall.
It was still early in the morning when the train pulled out of the station, or else it was a misty day. I know the fields looked soft and gray when we got out into the country, and the trees were blurred. I did not want to sleep. A new day had begun a new adventure. I would not miss any of it. But the last day, so unnaturally prolonged, was entangled in the skirts of the new.
The sky was as dusky as Miss March's grey gown; broken sometimes in the evening by a rift of misty gold, gleaming over Nunnely Hill, as if to show us what September sunsets might have been. John went every day to Norton Bury that week. His mind seemed restless he was doubly kind and attentive to me; but every night I heard him go out in all the storm to walk upon the common.
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