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Bébée did not stir, nor did she hear them; she was deaf even to the singing of the nightingales in the willows, where she sat in her little thatch above, and the wet garden-ways beyond her. A heavy step came tramping down the lane. A voice called to her, "What are you doing, Bébée, there, this time of the night? It is on the strike of twelve."
Soft impulses from moon and stars, and from the witching beauty of lonely hills and scented garden-ways, touched within their souls some primal sympathy that drew them close to that unseen boundary dividing spirits from shadow-casting men. It is true they rather felt than understood; but when the soul has faith, what matters comprehension?
It had been a lonely child who had played there, his only brother being too old to play, and he had gone about the garden-ways, carrying his absurd jumble of childish fancies, incredible aspirations, baby ambitions, on untiring little feet.
Name not the city to the breeze, lest for its rival lands It steal the perfumes, wherewithal its garden-ways are fraught. 'And if, added my father, 'you saw its gardens in the evenings, with the tree-shadows sloping over them, you would behold a marvel and incline to them with delight. And they fell to describing Cairo and the Nile.
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