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My emotions, once stifled in the enervating atmosphere, now awake fresh and strong in the free air. I was elemental the man wanting the woman; and I was happy because I knew I was going to get her. Such must be the state of being of a dragonfly on a sunny day. And shall I confess it? I had obeyed the dragon-fly's instinct and attired myself in the most resplendent raiment in my wardrobe.
There was a rail to climb over on the other side, and then he was in the copse, and began to walk down a broad green path, a road which wound in among the ash-wood. Nobody said anything to him, it was quite silent, so silent, that he could hear the snap of the dragon-fly's wing as he stopped in his swift flight and returned again.
"Why, what's the matter, child?" The dragon-fly's tone, surprisingly, was quite friendly. "Let him go," cried Maya, and tears came into her eyes. "His name is Jack Christopher." The dragon-fly smiled. "Why, little one?" it said, putting on an interested air, though most condescending.
And often when poor Flutter longed to be dancing once again over the blue waves, the Fairy bore him in his arms to the lake, and on a broad leaf, with a green flag for a sail, they floated on the still water; while the dragon-fly's companions flew about them, playing merry games. At length the broken wing was well, and Thistle said he must again seek the Water Spirits.
Then I'll answer you," cried Maya, who knew that the drones in the hive had to be killed off in the summer, and was provoked by the dragon-fly's stupidity. "But don't you dare to come a step closer. If you do I'll use my sting on you." Little Maya had really lost her temper. It was the first time she had mentioned her sting and the first time she felt glad that she possessed the weapon.
Those little streaks of paint you noticed upon the top-piece now reveal their purpose; as the tombo darts hither and thither, even the tints appear to be those of a real dragon-fly; and even the sound of the flitting toy imitates the dragon-fly's hum.
The Spider rushes from her leafy villa, runs boldly up to the giantess, flings a single bundle of ropes at her and, without further precautions, grips her with her legs, tries to subdue her and then digs her fangs into the Dragon-fly's back. The bite is prolonged in such a way as to astonish me. This is not the perfunctory kiss with which I am already familiar; it is a deep, determined wound.
Suddenly the wings flashed, and he was scaling a steep incline; another flash, a turn, and he was upon a slower plane had thrown himself against the air and settled upon the swaying top of a brown cattail. A quiet had been creeping over the swamp and meadow. The dry rasp of a dragon-fly's wings was loud in the grass.
Where the marsh swerved aside to wait until the river passed, the sunlight took a tall, purple-plumed iris, the reflection of the turquoise sky in a shallow pool, a bit of iridescence from a dragon-fly's wing, the shimmering green of blown grasses and a gleam of rising mist to make a fairy-like rainbow that, upon the instant, disappeared. "Oh!" said Edith. "Did you see?" "See what, dearest?"
Beetles, of which the scarabs were a numerous family, increased vastly, and the oldest known dragon-fly and supposed ancestor of those which hawk over the Oxford river, left his skeleton, or what represents a dragon-fly's skeleton, among some two thousand other specimens of fossil insects, in the Swiss Alps. It was then that the first bird and the first butterfly appeared.
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