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Updated: May 5, 2025
Men on horseback leading heavily laden pack-horses, covered wagons from which peeped women and children half-reclining upon bedding, their eyes filled with grave wonder at a world so unlike their homes in the East or North pyramids of undressed lumber fastened somehow upon four wheels and surmounted in precarious fashion by sprawling men whose faces and garments suggested Broadway, New York and Leadville, Colorado Wilfred gazed upon the unending panorama.
But, almost without the knowledge of their consciousness, their sensuousness not imagination, but the simple, healthy, instinctive sensuousness of young playful males kindled from chance encounters of their hands with feminine hands and from comradely obliging embraces, when the occasion arose to help the young ladies enter a boat or jump out on shore; from the tender odour of maiden apparel, warmed by the sun; from the feminine cries of coquettish fright on the river; from the sight of feminine figures, negligently half-reclining with a naive immodesty on the green grass around the samovar from all these innocent liberties, which are so usual and unavoidable on picnics, country outings and river excursions, when within man, in the infinite depth of his soul, secretly awakens from the care-free contact with earth, grasses, water and sun, the beast-ancient, splendid, free, but disfigured and intimidated of men.
Some were half-reclining before the blaze; others sat in rows on logs drawn close for the purpose; still others squatted like Indians on their heels, their hands thrown forward to keep the balance. Nearly all were smoking pipes. Every age was represented in this group, but young men predominated. All wore woollen trousers stuffed into leather boots reaching just to the knee.
At the door the foreman whispered to the widow: "Don't forget what I spoke about coming out from town!" Ophelia flushed and murmured, "No, indeed, but " she did not finish the sentence. She was about to say, "don't build false hopes!" When Parker and Skinny entered the bunk-house Old Heck and all the cowboys except the Ramblin' Kid were asleep. He was half-reclining on his bed, smoking.
Seating himself by her side on the floor, he raised her gently, and placing her in a half-sitting, half-reclining position in his lap, laid her head tenderly on his breast. While in this position Minnie administered restoratives, and the widow ere long opened her eyes and looked up.
A shield of gold, hanging at the head of the bed, shone like a sun in the obscurity of the apartment. Antipas crossed over to the couch and threw himself upon it in a half-reclining attitude, while Phanuel remained standing before him. Suddenly he raised one hand, and striking a commanding attitude said: "At times, my lord, the Most High sends a message to the people through one of His sons.
There she paused and leaned against one of the stone pillars. Dellarme himself was in a half-reclining position, his back to a tree. He seemed to be nodding. Except for a few on watch over the sand-bags, his men were stretched on the earth, moving restlessly at intervals, either in an effort to sleep or waking suddenly after a spell of harassed unconsciousness.
The fat man was shouting at a woman in pink satin, who lounged, half-reclining, among a pile of cushions upon a divan near the fire; Sneyd gallantly bending over her to kiss her hand. "It is a very little dinner, you see," continued the hostess, "only seven, but we shall be seven time' happier."
"Dreadful!" and she made a face at him like that of a naughty child, then she sank down on the sun-baked turf in an easy half-reclining attitude "It's certainly much worse to be a bore than to be hated. Hate is quite a live sentiment, besides it always means, or HAS meant love! You can't hate anything that is quite indifferent to you, but of course you CAN be bored!
The silence was broken at last by Demorest, who, half-reclining on a settee, had once or twice glanced towards the misshapen cactus. "Was there any trace discovered of Blandford, other than we knew before we left the States?" "Wa'al, no," said Ezekiel, thoughtfully.
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