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"I feel ten years younger, already. Ten, from what? X minus ten, equals ?" Thoughtfully, as he walked across the elastic moss and over the pine-needles, he stroked his beard. "Now, if I could only get a hair-cut and shave!" said he. "Well, why not? Wouldn't that surprise her, though?" The idea strong upon him, he hastened his steps, and soon was back at the door close to the huge Norway pine.
She dipped her handkerchief in the trickle of water and wiped the cold drops of faintness and agony from his forehead. And then, when he had confided to Andrew, who knelt beside him, that he had slipped upon the wet, slimy moss beside the rill, as he ascended the trail, and broken his knee-cap by striking heavily against a confronting rock, she said that they must lift him to a dry spot.
"She's a beauty, any way," muttered Ben, lifting one foot after another till he found the stone, and with some trouble got it out. "That was nicely done, and I'm much obliged. Can you tell me if that cross-road leads to the Elms?" asked the lady, as she went slowly on with Ben beside her. "No, ma'am; I'm new in these parts, and I only know where Squire Morris and Mrs. Moss live."
I propose we shall have a beautiful platform built, covered with moss and roses, beneath the blossoming trees, with the birds singing in their boughs, upon which we shall be united. What do you think of my idea is it not a pretty one?" "Your ideas are always poetical and fanciful," said Rex, glancing down into the beautiful brilliant face beside him.
Only a week before the arrival of Madame the spring on the hillside above the camp had been tapped, and the pipe laid securely underground. Besides this unheard-of luxury for the Lac du Sablier there were iron beds and mattresses and little wood stoves to go in the four bedrooms, which were more securely chinked with moss. The traditions of that camp had been hospitable.
Unmarked, the day faded, a new light was spread over the waters, the mist was spangled with silver points, the Spanish moss took on the whiteness of lace against the black forest swamp, and on the yellow face of the moon the star-shaped leaves of a gum were printed. At length I paused. She neither spoke, nor moved save for the rising and falling of her shoulders.
It did not seem possible that human beings could live, or would care to live, on this desolate plain of moss, 4000 feet above the sea, enveloped half the time in drifting clouds, and swept by frequent storms of rain and snow. But even here the Wandering Koraks herd their hardy reindeer, set up their smoky tent-poles, and bid contemptuous defiance to the elements.
Evidently the echoes of that shot, racketing and rebounding from rock and ravine, had misled them, for they had their backs turned and were gazing eastward, rifles pointed. Without time for thought or hesitation, McKay ran out toward them across the deep, wet moss. One of them heard him too late and McKay's impact hurled him into the gulf.
The house looked less as if it had been built than as if it had grown, and this feeling was heightened by the vegetable growth about it and upon it the clinging ivy, the green house-leek, the purple and golden moss on the roofs and walls. In the course of its three hundred years the Oak House had stood long enough to be altogether reconciled to nature, and half absorbed by it.
He knew who the lady was, for by that time he had studied the face and figure of Milly Moss until they had been indelibly photographed on his well, on the sensitive-plate of his soul, wherever that lay. Milly had quite recovered from her accident by that time and had resumed her favourite pursuits.
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