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All were painted green alike, and furnished with diamond panes, or bottle glass with bull's-eye centres, of the last century; and all, likewise, had similarly retreating doorways, sheltered by timber pent-houses to keep off the rain, access to them being gained by three or four perpendicular steps, so as to avoid flooding from the rivers of mud that covered the cobblestone roadway in wet weather, overflowing the narrow gutters, and narrower flagging along the side that did duty for a pavement.
He did not go to the front door, but, well acquainted with the disposition of the household, paused under a rear window, picked up a handful of gravel, threw it against the upper panes, and gave three low but distinct whistling trills. He could hear a prompt rustling. In less than forty seconds Darry Haven stuck his head out of the window. "Hello!" he hailed, rubbing his eyes.
As he ate he glanced from time to time at the two windows, with broken panes of glass and curtainless. He was not afraid that was nonsense; he had never been a cowardly man, but he felt the need of curtains or something before his windows to shut out the broad vast face of nature, or perhaps prying human eyes. Somebody might espy the light in the house and wonder.
The adjutant curled himself up among leave-rosters and ammunition and horse returns; I began writing the Brigade Diary for October, and kept looking over the sandbag that replaced the broken panes in my window for first signs of finer weather. The colonel and the adjutant played Wilde and myself at bridge that night the first game in our mess since April.
We sat there on the floor, Diana and I, and read the little book together, while the rain thudded against the window panes. June 19, 18 I came to-day to spend a while with Aunt Margaret in Charlottetown. It is so pretty here, where she lives and ever so much nicer than on the farm at home. I have no cows to milk here or pigs to feed.
Through the bewilderment of the running water on the panes she looked abroad on the tempest-riven sea a slate-colored waste of hurrying waves with wind-swept streaks of foam on them and on the lowering and ever-changing clouds. The fuchsia-bushes on the lawn tossed and bent before the wind; the few orange-lilies, wet as they were, burned like fire in this world of cold greens and grays.
James's, and the conservatory, in which she took the keenest delight, was a wonderful affair a vast bubble-like structure of green panes, whence, winter and summer, came a multitude of flowers for the house violets, lilies of the valley, jonquils, hyacinths, tulips, and her own loved roses. But the interior of the house was, in parts, less satisfactory.
Tonight, as I speak with you, Lynette lies motionless in the carved wide bed that formerly was her mother's. She is thinking of Sagramor. The room is dark save where moonlight silvers the diamond-shaped panes of ancient windows. In every corner of the room mysterious quivering suggestions lurk." "Ah, sire," says Jurgen, "you also are a poet!" "Do not interrupt me, then!
Verily, the heart of more than one great man ought to wax warm with innumerable recollections of inexpressible enjoyment at the sight of the small, square window panes that look upon the Place de la Sorbonne, and the Rue Neuve-de-Richelieu.
And there was nothing more to do, today, to-morrow, never. She felt all this vaguely as a certain disillusion, a certain crumbling of her dreams. She rose and leaned her forehead against the cold window panes. Then, after gazing for some time at the sky across which dark clouds were passing, she decided to go out. Was this the same country, the same grass, the same trees as in May?
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