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Here was the exquisite tension of dawn, curiously a-chime with John Bulmer's mood, for just now he found the universe too beautiful to put any actual faith in its existence.
GRASSES. Minute, granular, feathery, or downy seed-vessels, mingling quaint brown punctuation, and dusty tremors of dancing grain, with the bloom of the nearer fields; and casting a gossamered grayness and softness of plumy mist along their surfaces far away; mysterious evermore, not only with dew in the morning, or mirage at noon, but with the shaking threads of fine arborescence, each a little belfry of grainbells, all a-chime.
A few moments since and all the joy bells of his life had been a-chime; they were still ringing, but jangling confusedly out of tune, and now she was asking him to conceal the cause of his joy, that he had found her. He could not understand fully; his mind would not clear itself. "I won't do anything to make you miserable, Sissy," he said, faintly.
I could hardly resist suggesting to one of my men companions what a good wife she was longing to make, what a Sleeping Beauty she was, waiting for the marital kiss that would set all the sweet bells of her nature a-chime. I had the greatest difficulty in preventing myself from leaning over to her, and putting it to her in this way 'Excuse me, madam, but I love you. Will you be my wife?
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