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She rose from the mossy log and accompanied him without another word. At last he broke the silence. "I am a gentleman," he said, "and am in honor bound to carry out this contract, if you can not be induced to release me." "That is the only sensible view for you to take," she said. He crushed back the angry words that rose to his lips.
So saying, I set the example by throwing myself in a prone attitude on the turf; but not for long did I remain thus. Considering its mossy appearance, the earth seemed unduly hard and strangely unsuited to serve as a cushion for the recumbent human form. In addition, there was an amazing prevalence of insect life, all of it characterised by a restless and constant activity.
The best piece in it I will send you, being short. I have grievously offended my friends in the North by declaring my undue preference; but I need not fear you. "A violet, by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye, Fair as a star when only one Is shining in the sky. "She lived unknown; and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in the grave, and oh, The difference to me!"
"This isn't furtive," said Ann Veronica. "Not a bit of it. And we won't make it so.... We mustn't make it so." They loitered under trees, they sat on mossy banks they gossiped on friendly benches, they came back to lunch at the "Star and Garter," and talked their afternoon away in the garden that looks out upon the crescent of the river. They had a universe to talk about two universes.
The long low line of the house rose behind them an attractive house and an old one, but with no architectural features to speak of, except a high-pitched mossy roof, a picturesque series of dormer-windows, and a high gable and small lantern cupola at the farther end which marked the private chapel.
Cyril had said several things in the heat of the moment; but now he was calmer, and had even consented to carry the Lamb part of the way to the woods. Cyril had persuaded the others to agree to his plan, and not to wish for anything more till they really did wish it. Meantime it seemed good to go to the woods for nuts, and on the mossy grass under a sweet chestnut tree the five were sitting.
In a moment more the little princess was dreaming in the midst of the loveliest dreams of summer seas and moonlight and mossy springs and great murmuring trees, and beds of wild flowers with such odours as she had never smelled before. But, after all, no dream could be more lovely than what she had left behind when she fell asleep. In the morning she found herself in her own bed.
The following day's journey, was one that few can take, and deem their time misspent. Mossy cliffs flowing cascades "chiefless castles breaking stern farewells" all these were met, and met again, as through Brixen, they reached the village of Muelks.
One day, while reclining on a mossy couch beneath a spreading beech tree, amusing himself by tearing strips of bark from the tree that shaded him, and carving letters with his knife, a happy thought entered his mind. "Why can I not," he mused within himself, "cut those letters out, carry them home, and, while using them as playthings, teach the little ones how to read?" The plan worked admirably.
This plot here is filled with hardy hybrid perpetuals, and that with tender tea-roses, requiring very different treatment. Here is a moss that will bloom again in the autumn. It has a sounding name Soupert-et-notting but it is worthy of any name. Though not so mossy as some others, look at its fine form and beautiful rose-color.
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