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I wondered if she would be portrayed floating down to meet Antony, with her purple and perfumed sails, her cloth of gold garments, her peacocks, her ibex, her lotus-blooms, and if all her mysterious fascinations would be spread before the delighted gaze of her humble worshipper. What I found is shown in the frontispiece to this volume. Beauty unadorned with a vengeance!
In silence they went down-stairs, and through the piazza with its flowering orange-trees, out into the gardens, where, on the stone balustrade, the peacocks were attitudinizing and conversing in the high key in which they always proclaim a change of weather and their innate vulgarity to the world. Charles led the way towards a little rushing brook which divided the gardens from the park.
The young Livian would have as readily questioned his own existence. Some one thrust back the flaps of the tent, and called inside into the darkness: "Are you here, Drusus?" "I am," was the wearied answer. "Is that Antonius?" "Yes. Come out. We may as well dispose of our cold puls before the moon rises, and while we can imagine it peacocks, Lucrine oysters, or what not."
We've a couple of peacocks here, and Totty will get one of them ready sooner than the aard-vark." "As for that," rejoined Hans, "I don't care which. I'm just in the condition to eat anything even a steak of tough old quagga, if I had it; but I think it would be no harm if Swartboy that is, if you're not too tired, old Swart would just peel the skin off this gentleman."
Stanley had caused to be walled round, and consecrated so to speak with a stone medallion on which were engraved the aged Moreton arms arrows and crescent moons in proper juxtaposition. Peacocks, too that bird 'parlant, from the old Moreton crest were encouraged to dwell there and utter their cries, as of passionate souls lost in too comfortable surroundings.
We saw also several troops of wild deer; but, to our great disappointment, not a single elephant could we catch even a glimpse of. We counted, at one time, several dozens of peacocks some perched on the trees, some high in the air; we fired at them repeatedly, but I do not believe any came within shot.
Hardly any one was so bold. Tito quoted Horace and dispersed his slice in small particles over his plate; Bernardo Rucellai made a learned observation about the ancient price of peacocks' eggs, but did not pretend to eat his slice; and Niccolo Ridolfi held a mouthful on his fork while he told a favourite story of Luigi Pulci's, about a man of Siena, who, wanting to give a splendid entertainment at moderate expense, bought a wild goose, cut off its beak and webbed feet, and boiled it in its feathers, to pass for a pea-hen.
And the steeds of Nala that were in that city heard that sound, and hearing it they became delighted as they used to be in the presence of Nala himself. And Damayanti also heard the sound of that car driven by Nala, like the deep roar of the clouds in the rainy season. And the peacocks on the terraces, and the elephants in the stables, and the horses also, all heard the rattle of Rituparna's car.
I hate needlework-i always did." "knitting?" "And that, too." "You might finish your sampler. Only the carna- tions and peacocks want filling in; and then it could be framed and glazed, and hung beside your aunt" ma'am." "Samplers are out of date horribly countrified. No Liddy, I'll read. Bring up some books not new ones. I haven't heart to read anything new."
All of the peacocks were on the opposite side of the river from our camp where the jungle was thickest. On the first morning my wife and I floated down the river on the raft for half a mile and landed to stalk a peacock which had called frequently from a rocky point near the water's edge.
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