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Updated: May 20, 2025
Away up in the elm tree before the house an oriole was blowing his little golden trumpet, his flashing coat rivalling the row of scarlet and golden tulips that bordered the garden path. The little green lawn before the house sparkled under a diamond-spangled web.
After supper, the dancers all went back to their boats, and this time the Star Gazer entered that of the eldest Princess. They crossed again the wood with the diamond-spangled leaves, the wood with gold-sprinkled leaves, and the wood whose leaves glittered with drops of silver, and as a proof of what he had seen, the boy broke a small branch from a tree in the last wood.
One of the women whirled in a series of handsprings, like a blue balloon her body as fluid as quicksilver. If he could only borrow one-tenth of that endurance for Anne he might keep her for years. Then came Pantaloon, and Harlequin and Columbine. The old man was funny, but the youth and the girl were exquisite he, diamond-spangled and lean as a lizard, she in tulle skirts and wreath of flowers.
They shared a room at the end of the hall and Auntie Elspie's room was opposite his. It was quite late when finally he heard her come up to bed. But yet he could not sleep. His window-blind was rolled to the top and the moonlight flooded his room. Outside the diamond-spangled earth lay still and frost bound. Craig-Ellachie stood out white, silver-crowned, against the blue of the forest.
Here is the reward of your discretion. And she flung the boy a purse of gold. 'I do not sell my silence, answered Michael, and he went away without picking up the purse. For three nights Lina neither saw nor heard anything extraordinary; on the fourth she heard a rustling among the diamond-spangled leaves of the wood. That day there was a branch of the trees in her bouquet.
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