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Updated: May 13, 2025
Swiftly fell the reply made by Victo, and her words must have stung the prince to the quick, since he uttered a savage cry, drawing back an arm as though to smite that proudly beautiful face with his hard-clenched fist. That proved to be the cap-sheaf, for Bruno could stand no more.
Indeed, the whole recent course of her experience was such a novelty the trip to Texas was her first real adventure in the world that she saw things with the new vision of a traveler; and the present situation, turning out so happily, put the cap-sheaf on that dream which is truly Life.
Each day's end sent her to her bed healthily tired, but happily conscious that she had helped to accomplish something. A queer twist of luck put the cap-sheaf on their undertaking. Hazel ran a splinter of wood into her hand, thus putting a stop to her activities with shovel and pail. Until the wound lost its soreness she was forced to sit idle.
Then, again, in 1825, Bernard Germain, Count de Lacepede, a great naturalist, published a scientific systemized whale book, wherein are several pictures of the different species of the Leviathan. But the placing of the cap-sheaf to all this blundering business was reserved for the scientific Frederick Cuvier, brother to the famous Baron.
It means to me much that no alien mind, no soul of a common servant, should mar the serenity of the atmosphere in that spot where I sit alone with myself. I would have it dedicated to the greater Me. It would be the cap-sheaf do you not so say in this land of great harvests? thus to give shelter not only to my body, but to my soul, in this bare and quiet little room." "Why, certainly, certainly!"
For amid the heart-shaped leaves, so brightly green, was the cap-sheaf of summer wear: "A nest of robins in her hair."
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