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As he leaned his back against a tree, he looked up and saw a Bluefinch fly down from the sky and alight upon a branch just before him. The bird looked and looked at him. First it looked with one bright eye and then turned its head and looked at him with the other eye. Then, fluttering its wings a little, it said, "Oho! So you've eaten the enchanted peach, have you?"
One night she could not sleep, and ordered the musicians to be brought into her bedroom; where, drawing the bed-curtains, she could not be seen by the musicians, but could hear them at her ease. At length, enchanted at a piece which they had just played, she abruptly thrust her head beyond the curtains, and cried out, "Mort diable! but they sing delightfully!"
And into this enchanted green and golden dusk no sunlight penetrated, save along the thread-like roads, or where stark-naked rocks towered skyward, or where, in profound and velvet depths, crystalline streams and rivers widened between their Indian willow bottoms. And these were always set with wild flowers, every bud and blossom gilded by the sun.
But all the same did not her heart, in imagination, fly away to the enchanted country of her childhood, where lived her kith and kin, where all her life-ties had been formed, where she had left the most extraordinary dream that ever human being dreamt?
He thought of his wickedness and his wasted time, and compared himself with the great men in the books who had been in similar evil straits, with Marc Antony, with King Arthur in Gwendolen's enchanted castle, and with Geraint the strong but slothful, rather far-fetched this last comparison, and of all the rest. It was a grotesque variety, but amid it all he really suffered.
She did not look forward to leaving him on the morrow, and as good as said so. "I have been enchanted here," she said, "and hate the thought of London. But James won't hear of Wycross in June. He loves the world." Urquhart said, "What are you going to do in August? Wycross?" "No, we never go there in August. It's too hot And there's Lancelot. A boy must have excitement.
But one day I shall be so no longer. One day I shall be a woman. One day I shall be in the power and possession of some man if not this man, then some other. Everything happens; and this will happen!" And the hazardous strangeness of life enchanted her. The Orgreave family was holding its nightly session in the large drawing-room of Lane End House when Hilda and Janet arrived.
Having secretly admired the punishments devised by the Lady of the Enchanted Pelerine, I responded: "Then, if I understand you rightly, Jeanne, you are at once a pupil here and a mistress? It is a condition of existence very common in the world. You are punished, and you punish?" "Oh, Monsieur!" she exclaimed. "No! I never punish!"
This was no two-sworded gentleman, but the common stuff of the country, born in low traditions and unimproved by books; and yet that influence, that radiant persuasion that never failed Yoshida in any circumstance of his short life, enchanted, enthralled, and converted the common soldier, as it had done already with the elegant and learned.
The weapon of bronze was dull; but that of steel was bright the "white sword of light," one touch of which broke spells, liberated enchanted princesses, and froze giants' marrow. King Arthur's magic sword "Excalibur" was regarded as almost heroic in the romance of chivalry.
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