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Updated: May 9, 2025
"And in this state of mind we crawled beneath our furs, feeling too lonely and forsaken to have a thought to cook a meal, and so very, very weary with the labor we had done, in running and wading through the heavy snow, that we did not care for food; and in deep sleep we buried up the heaviest sorrow that we had ever known, the grievous sorrow of a dead, dead hope, the hope of rescue that had come and gone from us, as the cloud-shadow flies across the summer field."
Half-three," and his modulated cry, returned leisurely and monotonous, like the repeated call of a bird, seemed to float away in sunshine and disappear in the spacious silence of the empty sea and of a lifeless shore lying open, north and south, east and west, without the stir of a single cloud-shadow or the whisper of any other voice.
I found him older, more preoccupied and silent; but I guessed that his preoccupations were political, for when his eye rested on his wife it cleared like the lake when a cloud-shadow lifts from it. Count Andrea and his wife occupied an adjoining villa; and during the villeggiatura the two households lived almost as one family.
Slipping his hat between the legs of the calf, he fastened it securely. This done, he vaulted on Kentuck, and was off with never a backward glance. Certain it was that the wolves would not touch anything, alive or dead, that bore the scent of a human being. The bison scoured away a long half-mile in the lead, sailing northward like a cloud-shadow over the plain.
The broad, blooming, tranquil expanse, shimmering and softly radiant in the heat, seemed the very epitome of summer. Now and again a small cloud-shadow sailed across it. Now and again a little wind, swooping down upon it gently, bent the grass-tops all one way, and spread a sudden silvery pallor.
They seemed to be dropping again. One more violent swerve and they came flashing out into wet gray cloud-shadow and on into brilliant sunlight. A few seconds passed. Then the ape remarked, "Looks like you lost them, chum." "Right," said the driver. "Almost at the river now. I'll turn north there and drop down." "Right," said the ape. "Get us that far and we'll be out of trouble."
Allowing one minute for the passing of whoever rustled that leaf, and a cloud-shadow, and there he was again, back at the gall, his shining eyes, that mirrored the moon, being the only visible part of him. He rolled the gall over and sniffed, and that was quite enough, thank you. No nut there, and he knew it by scent, I fancy.
He scarcely raised his eyes from the ground as he walked. Nearing the house the sudden sound of a window being raised made him look up, and in an instant, swift as a passing cloud-shadow, his moodiness was gone. Daisy was leaning on her window-sill, looking down upon him. Though she had not spoken to him for weeks, she gave him no greeting. Her voice even sounded a trifle sharp.
His kingdom silently awaited his coming so he struck out at a sharp pace. The run of the day before, in place of stiffening him, had put him in racing trim and he went like the wind. He was in playful mood. He danced and shied as each cloud-shadow struck him, a dim figure in the shade but shining red-chestnut in the sun patches.
Sometimes, in heavy cloud-shadow, it is almost as dark as the green of a Siberian alexandrite; but just beyond the shadow, in the full sunshine, it brightens to the color of a greenish turquoise.
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