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Updated: May 19, 2025
Its summer plumage so exactly harmonizes with the lichen-coloured stones among which it delights to sit, that a person may walk through a flock of them without seeing a single bird; while in winter its white plumage is an almost equal protection.
The house, a place of grey stone with grey weathered and lichen-coloured slates, raised its great oblong chimneys into a pellucid air. The sunlight flashed upon its rows of tall windows they were all flat to the house, except the one great bay on the ground floor in the library and birds called from all the trees. The time slipped away.
But they remained where they were, the girl framed by the doorway, the lithe little figure in khaki and lichen-coloured helmet looking up at her from the foot of the two front steps. At last he said in some embarrassment: "That's a very beautiful cask of yours." She wavered for a few seconds. Then she said: "You can enter, monsieur, and examine it, if you like."
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