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The sensation of having thrown off the bonds of earth-bound folk; of soaring above the noise and dust of highways; of being free from the obstructions of traffic; of sweeping forward smoothly, swiftly, and serenely the land stretching below in an ever-changing panorama, with the drone of the motor in one's ears, and a wine-like exhilaration in the rush of the air: these, and others more obscure, are among the sensations of cross-country flying.
"D'you want my suggestion?" demanded Blake, warm with the wine-like knowledge which, he knew, made him master of the situation. "Of course," was the Commissioner's curt response. "Well, you 've got to have a man who knows Binhart, who knows him and his tricks and his hang outs!" "Well, who does?" "I do," declared Blake. The Commissioner indulged in his wintry smile.
The rocks were emerging by degrees from their winter clothing of snow; moss of a wine-like colour was springing up on the basalt cliffs, strips of seaweed fifty yards long were floating on the sea, and on the plain the lyella, which is of Andean origin, was pushing up its little points, and the only leguminous plant of the region, that gigantic cabbage already mentioned, valuable for its anti-scorbutic properties, was making its appearance.
The dark doors and windows of the cattle-sheds looked out under the thick brows of their thatched eaves at the strange fluctuating wine-like light as if they were consciously preserving their occupants from the night's magic. As she walked to the garden's edge, the crickets chirped in the long grass and the ballet of the bats drove back and forwards in long streaks.
The wine-like atmosphere, the glorious light, the odor of the fields and the strength and beauty of the life new-born in the desert, with the spirit and freedom of the animal she rode, all appealed with almost painful intensity to the girl who was herself so richly alive. She felt her close kinship with it all and answered to it all out of the fullness of her own young woman's strength.
Nivel was bored; he steered us back to the guest-room, where a most excellent lunch was awaiting us soup, fish, a dish of cutlets and a sweet omelette, all excellent, and served with red and white wine-like nectar and coffee from the Trappists' estate on the hills. The abbot did not eat with us, but sat and charmed us with his conversation, for charming it was.
About a week later just at the beginning of June, this was Paula did go back to Chicago, leaving her husband to go on gaining the benefit, for another ten days or so, of that wine-like mountain air. It was an unwelcome conviction that he really wanted her to go, rather than any crying need for her at Ravinia that decided her to leave him.
At daylight, after a breakfast of their own cooking partly prepared the night before by Martha, who unquestionably viewed the minister's going away on a Saturday with doubtful eyes they were off. When they left the town far behind and following the ridge road in the clear wine-like air of the early day entered the woods, the Doctor laughed aloud as Dan burst forth with a wild boyish yell.
The wood now glowed with colour, russet and green and brown, wine-like red of the tree-trunks where the sun struck aslant on them, soft yellow greens where the young ferns uncurled their downy heads. The air was sweet, sweet, with the smell of morning; was the whole world new since last night? What were these harsh voices saying? "They think she'll live now?"
"Watch me!" replied Gissing gallantly. "Come on then, or you'll be late for dinner. I'll race you home!" And she was off like a flash. But in spite of Miss Airedale's threat, at Atlantic City they both fell into a kind of dreamy reverie. The wine-like tingle of that salty air was a quiet drug. The apparently inexhaustible sunshine was sharpened with a faint sting of coming autumn.
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