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She felt the joy of sunshine and of blue, the joy of love and of sympathy, the joy of health and of activity, the joy of sane passion that fights not against any law of God or man, the joy of liberty in a joyous land where the climate is kindly, and, despite poverty and toil, there are songs upon the lips of men, there are tarantellas in their sun-browned bodies, there are the fires of gayety in their bold, dark eyes.
The other gentleman also slight and short, but with a sun-browned, dried-up face, and big gray moustache bowed and resumed his seat. 'You know, then, that your son has run away with my sister, said Mr. Tom, somewhat hotly though he had determined to keep his temper. 'Perhaps you know also where they are?
Who cannot recall the sweet illusions of those tripping youthful years, when, for the first time, Sir William Wallace strode so gallantly with waving plume and glittering falchion down the pages of Miss Porter, when sweet Helen Mar wasted herself in love for the hero, when the sun-browned Ivanhoe dashed so grandly into that famous tilting-ground near to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and brought the wicked Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert to a reckoning, when we wished the disinherited knight better things than the cold love of the passionless Rowena, and sighed over the fate of poor Fergus MacIvor?
Again and again the modest kerchief was arranged and rearranged to show a hair's breadth more or a hair's breadth less of her brown but round and taper throat. Repeatedly, before it could be finally adjusted to her satisfaction, was the delicate fabric of her coiffure moved with cautious care and dainty touch a leetle backwarder or a leetle forwarder over her sun-browned brow.
Behind them the Hills lay, dark with the everlasting greenery of the North even, low, with only sun-browned Harney to raise its cliff-like front above the rest of the range. As though by a common impulse they reined in their horses and looked back. "I wonder just where the Rock is?" she mused. They tried to guess at its location.
Suddenly she grew still, for a sun-browned, bearded man had crossed the threshold, and thrown a paper into her lap, saying huskily: 'There's the mortgage, Pauline, to make a bonfire of. I've come home to stay. Before he had finished, her arms were around his neck, and Polly heard her cry softly, with the break of a great gladness in her voice: 'Lemuel! Why, Lemuel!
The drover, an ex-squatter, is away with sheep. His wife and children are left here alone. Four ragged, dried-up-looking children are playing about the house. Suddenly one of them yells: "Snake! Mother, here's a snake!" The gaunt, sun-browned bushwoman dashes from the kitchen, snatches her baby from the ground, holds it on her left hip, and reaches for a stick. "Where is it?"
Who knew but what there might be English among those sun-browned half-naked masses of panting wretches? "Must we fire upon the slaves?" asked more than one, as the thought crossed him. Amyas sighed. "Spare them all you can, in God's name; but if they try to run us down, rake them we must, and God forgive us." The two galleys came on abreast of each other, some forty yards apart.
But two young men had taken the very seats that Madame Dufour had selected and were eating their luncheon. No doubt they were the owners of the sculls, for they were in boating costume. They were stretched out, almost lying on the chairs; they were sun-browned and their thin cotton jerseys, with short sleeves, showed their bare arms, which were as strong as a blacksmith's.
His cheeks were incredibly sun-browned, with a ruddy glow beneath; his moustache and the hair at his temples were almost golden. I liked the greenish grey of his tweed suit that seemed to match his clear, wide-open eyes. He made a wry face at the stuffed birds and then he whispered: "Old chaps, have you been happy here?" We nodded. The past was gone. What did it matter!
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