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Updated: May 12, 2025
The first warning she was given was a sudden impact on a high branch of an oak-tree a yard or two from where she stood, and the falling to earth, delayed by the thick crepitant layers of green-gold, sun-soaked leaves, of a cricket ball.
What was a romantic fragment of history, compared to the certainty that the roast would be overdone? But when we swept into the green-gold dusk of the forest, I forgot such trivialities as buildings made by man.
In the dusk the green-gold palms turn their star-like faces and stretch their fan-like fingers, lifting themselves proudly, lest any lordly leaf should know the taint of earth. Out from the isle the serpent hill thrusts its great length around the bay, shouldering back the waters and the shadows.
Three years before at a jurists' ball, when Henrietta and Szilard met for the first time, he had given her a bouquet, among the flowers of which was one of these green-gold leaves, and when she got home she had planted it in a jar and it had taken root, spread its shoots abroad and grown larger and larger every year.
Draperies on the walls, furniture made by Wen Ho and Prosper, lacquered in black and red, brass and copper, bright pewter, gay china, some fur rugs, a gorgeous Oriental lamp, bookcases with volumes of a sober richness, in fact the costliest and most laborious of imports to this wilderness, small-paned, horizontal windows curtained in some heavy green-gold stuff which slipped along the black lacquered pole on rings of jade; all these and a hundred other points of softly brilliant color gave to the living-room a rare and striking look, while the bedrooms were matted, daintily furnished, carefully appointed as for a bride.
To some the glad moment may have arrived on other provocations; and their recollection may be most vivid of the stately gait of women carrying burthens on their heads; of tropical effect, with caves and naked rock and sunlight; of the relief of cypresses; of the troubled, busy-looking groups of sea-pines, that seem always as if they were being wielded and swept together by a whirlwind; of the air coming, laden with virginal perfumes, over the myrtles and the scented underwoods; of the empurpled hills standing up, solemn and sharp, out of the green-gold air of the east at evening.
They walked on in silence for a few moments, into a path leading to a lake, which had stolen the flaming green-gold of the sky. "I suppose," said Honora, slowly, "it would be better for me to wish to be contented where I am, as you are. But it's no use trying, I can't." Peter was not a preacher. "Oh," he said, "there are lots of things I want." "What?" demanded Honora, interested.
It was natural to play guide on the way to the dear old copper and purple and green-gold ruin, ivy-curtained from the tower roofs to the mossy moat.
The air was heavy with the scent of may and of honeysuckle, and his way was a green-gold silver where the moon cascaded down the hedge and blue-black bridal-path, arched with scented swords, strewn with pink and rose and cream and white confetti of blossom.
They walked on in silence for a few moments, into a path leading to a lake, which had stolen the flaming green-gold of the sky. "I suppose," said Honora, slowly, "it would be better for me to wish to be contented where I am, as you are. But it's no use trying, I can't." Peter was not a preacher. "Oh," he said, "there are lots of things I want." "What?" demanded Honora, interested.
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