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He came, he saw, he was conquered. My wife lassoed him at a throw. He went home in fetters, his eloquence alone unloosed. Long before the night on which they should meet to call, he had brandished his opinion as to the wisdom of my delirious haste. "But did he mak' his choice so redeek'lus sudden?" he was asked. "I dinna ken," he answered tropically, "and I dinna care.
The air, as it touched his face, was tropically warm and indolent with voluptuous fragrance of flowers and plants. Luxuriant shrubs, with broad-drooping leaves, stood motionless in the heat. Two palm-trees uplifted their heavy plumes forty feet aloft, on slender stalks, brushing the high glass roof.
"Will you come?" he said and she went with him like a child just as she had followed in her babyhood. It seemed only natural to do what he asked. The conservatory was like an inner Paradise now. The tropically scented warmth the tiers on tiers of bloom above bloom the softened swing of music the splash of the fountain on water and leaves. Their plane had lifted itself too.
The sky was tropically perfect, cloudless, and jewelled lavishly. Indeed, we were in the midst of an Indian summer; it seemed that the uncanny visitants had brought, together with an atmosphere of black Eastern deviltry, something, too, of the Eastern climate. The last stroke of the Cathedral bell died away.
How was it?" "As such climates always are to me, intoxicating to-day, enervating to-morrow." "How long were you there?" "Three months." "I feel tropically inclined, so tell us about it." "There is nothing to tell." "I'll prove that by a catechism. Where did you stay?" "In Havana." "Of course, but with whom?" "Gabriel André." "The father of the saffron youth?" "Yes."
"We proceeded onward for more than half an hour guided by the moonlight, but this, although tropically brilliant, at some places scarcely penetrated the thick vapour which arose from the jungle. In those days I was a young and vigorous man; my companion was several years my senior; and his sufferings were far greater than my own. But if the jungle was horrible, worse was yet to come.
The English cemetery, laid out upon a terraced hill-side just out of the city borders and overlooking the harbor, is a very interesting resort, admirably kept and appropriately ornamented with choice trees, shrubs, and flowers, tropically luxuriant from its southern exposure.
And what with profitless conjectures concerning its nature, and memories of Val Beverley's pathetic parting glance as we had bade one another good- night, sleep seemed to be out of the question, and I stood for a long time staring out of the open window. The weather remained almost tropically hot, and the moon floated in a cloudless sky.
All night the storm of rain and snow raged around our camp on the south shore of Artillery Lake, but we were up and away in the morning in spite of it. Next day we crossed Lake Harry and camped three-quarters of a mile farther on the long portage. How tropically rich all this vegetation looked after the "Land of little sticks."
My imagination is already inflamed by hearing of marvels, and I am beginning to think tropically.
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