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And I would draw your heart within mine to rest there, and would feel life all too blissfully, ineffably sweet to live." His voice broke in upon her meditations, causing her a very perceptible start, so rapt were they. "What is the subject of your very deep thought, my Lilith? Are you wreathing some strange and hitherto unsuspected spell, sorceress?"
"It looks cold and almost dead now," she murmured. "How different it will look in a few hours!" "Yes." They still stood there, almost like two children, fascinated by the sight of the theater. Charmian was rapt. For a moment she forgot the passers-by, the gliding motor-cars, the noises of the city, even herself.
This was the home of Pansy Vaughan; and Pansy was the explanation of everything beautiful and fruitful, the peaceful Joan of Arc of that valley, seeing rapt visions of the glory of her people. In the plain upper room of the plain brick house, on her hard white bed with her hard white thoughts, lay Pansy sleepless throughout the night of Marguerite's ball.
The Florentines, more justly balanced, less abandoned to the frenzies of impassioned impulse, less capable of feeling the rapt exaltation of the devotee, expressed themselves in art distinguished for its intellectual power, its sanity, its scientific industry, its adequacy to average human needs. Therefore, Florentine influences determined the course of painting in Central Italy.
Where did that girl whom he thought so unsophisticated of the world learn that marvel of acquaintance with that babe, so far removed from his ability to reach? It must be that while he knew the world, she understood the secret of heaven. She is so patient. What a brute he is to grow impatient, when she endures day and night in rapt patience and the joy of content!
She caught up one red rose, winked the moisture from her eyes, and gazed rapt, lips parted, color high out at the close-clipped lawn behind the privet hedge. The afternoon would soon be waning in another hour or so. She must not disturb him now. In an hour, say, she would run up the stairs and tap at his door.
In my rapt contemplation of her, of the personality which enthralled me far, far more than her beautiful person could, I smiled over recollection of my bitter struggles in London slums, of the heart-racking anxiety and grinding humiliation of life with poor Fanny.
She had the rapt look of the dreamer. Suddenly she recovered her more worldly mood: "What are you doing here?" she added. "Have you come to take up official life? Have you some public position of responsibility? Ah, perhaps," she laughed almost merrily, "you are the very man; the great reformer. Perhaps you think and feel as I do, though you've argued against me.
"Palmyra, Baalbec, Timour of the Desert," said March, voicing their common feeling of the change. They turned and went into the beautiful church, and found themselves in time for the matin service. Rapt far from New York, if not from earth, in the dim richness of the painted light, the hallowed music took them with solemn ecstasy; the aerial, aspiring Gothic forms seemed to lift them heavenward.
She hears it, because she has so longed for it, so striven to produce the highest music on earth. But the others are only moved by their sympathy with her. See the wistful look on St. John's face, and St. Augustine's also. And St. Paul is lost in wondering thought at St. Cecilia's emotion. And Mary Magdalene is asking us to look at her and try to understand her rapt upward look."
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