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Venetian lamps glowed like yellow witch-lights in the branches; fountains tossed moon-bright sprays of quicksilver aloft and tinkled with the splash; the waters of a sunken pool, jeweled in stars, glimmered darkly green through files of cypress. All in all, an entrancing moon-mad world of mystery and dusk-moths, heavy with the scent of jasmine and orange.
Through which the fine-spun spray of fountains drifted, and the great mousy dusk-moths darted through the bars of light with the glimmering bullet-flight of summer meteors.
"Yes, I'm sorry for the girl I was.... I was rather a nice girl, Duane. You remember me before I married." "Yes, I do. You were a corker. You are still." She nodded: "Yes, outwardly. Within is nothing. I am very, very old; very tired." He said no more. She sat listlessly watching the dusk-moths hovering among the pinks.
When Joan came and curled up in a chair beside him with her chin upon her hand, he forgot Adam Craig entirely and went on playing. Not the music of rebellion; it was more the music of dreams, dusk-moths of melody that flitted through his memory, curiously iridescent.
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