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Then, seeing his expression, she tactfully changed her tone. "I'll explain. It was the same thing that struck me the night of Blanche's party when you looked at me over Leonard Kaine's head. You remember?" She glanced away from him across the Park to where the grass was already showing greener. Chilcote felt ill at ease. Again he put his hand to his coat collar. "Oh yes," he said, hastily "yes."
Wolfgang See, brought us to the little village of St. Gilgen. The valley of St. Gilgen lies like a little paradise between the mountains. Lovely green fields and woods slope gradually from the mountain behind, to the still greener lake spread out before it, in whose bosom the white Alps are mirrored.
"Very sorry, sir, no mistake, sir; Miss Vandaleur is not at 'ome!" and the door closed in the face of the astonished artist. It was June in Connemara. Where else is the month of roses half as lovely? where does the sky show bluer, or the grass greener? and where is the air so clear and cool and fragrant, or the lakes half as still and azure as in that blessed country?
The crocuses were in bloom in the yards along College Street, and the grass on the campus was growing greener every hour. The roads, too, were obligingly drying, so that adventurous walkers might visit their favorite haunts in the country surrounding Overton without running the risk of wading in the mud.
The whole country wore a greener garb than I had seen anywhere south of the Ganges: the climate was evidently more humid, and had been gradually becoming so from Mirzapore. The first decided change was a few miles below the Soane mouth, at Dinapore and Patna; and the few hygrometrical observations I took at Bhagulpore confirmed the increase of moisture.
This did as well as the purest Malay order meaning to the left, for the elephant turned his head in the other direction at once, and then planting his great feet carefully in the fairly dry holes, he began to follow the greener path.
So many months of weariness and pain while bones and muscles were shaped within; so many hours of anguish and struggle that breath might be; so many baby mouths drawing life at woman's breasts; all this, that men might lie with glazed eyeballs, and swollen bodies, and fixed, blue, unclosed mouths, and great limbs tossed this, that an acre of ground might be manured with human flesh, that next year's grass or poppies or karoo bushes may spring up greener and redder, where they have lain, or that the sand of a plain may have a glint of white bones!"
These tamed animals have a great dread of the whip." All was beautifully calm now out in the field. The grass seemed greener than ever.
And indeed, one of our old sayings is, "For pleasure's sake I would liefer wet, Than ha' ten lumps of gold for each one of my sweat." And again, which is not a bad proverb, though unthrifty and unlike a Scotsman's, "God makes the wheat grow greener, While farmer be at his dinner."
'Why, it's like home exactly I mean England only everything's bluer, and whiter, and greener, and the flowers are bigger. The boys owned that it certainly was fairly decent, and even Jane admitted that it was all very pretty. 'I'm certain there's nothing to be frightened of here, said Anthea. 'I don't know, said Jane.
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