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A crowd had collected to hear her, for she was playing out of the great silence that is in every soul, in that of the light-o'-love as well as of the saint, and she went on playing, apparently unaware of the number of people she had collected about her. She stopped playing and returned to me. "You play beautifully; why did you say you didn't like Beethoven?"
The morning star grew pale and vanished in the clear-flashing delight of sunrise, as Richard rode forth to meet the string of racers; as he noted the varying form and fortune of Rattlepate or Sweet Rosemary, of Yellow Jacket, Morion or Light-o'-Love, over the short fragrant turf of the gallop; as he felt the virile joy which the strength of the horses and the pounding rush of them as they swept past him ever aroused in him.
Dick Derosne perhaps was not unaware that many people in Kirton frowned on him as an unprincipled deceiver, or, at best, a fickle light-o'-love; he would have been much more surprised, and also more displeased, to know that there was even one who thought of him as a deluded innocent, and had determined to rescue him from the snares which were set for his destruction.
Emboldened, his hand closed upon the dainty fingers and an instant later they were borne to his hot lips. "You have said that I came here in search of a light adventure," he whispered, holding her hand close to his cheek as he bent nearer to her. "You imply that I am a trifler, a light-o'-love. I want you to understand me better. I came here because I " "Stop!" she pleaded. "You must not say it.
And she went off and left me, but I bear angry pride deep in my heart, that I, the handsome shepherd, should have been mocked by a wretched light-o'-love. Shepherds, tell me the very truth; am I not beautiful? Has some God changed me suddenly to another man?
"Star-mist and music and the pensive moon These when I harboured at that perfumed shore; And then, how soon! the radiance of noon, And faces of dear children at the door. "Land of the Greater Love men call it this; No light-o'-love sets here an ambuscade; No tender torture of the secret kiss Makes sick the spirit and the soul afraid.
"Somehow," went on the Chevalier, "that grey mask continually intrudes into my dreams." "That is because you have been ill, Paul." "Is she some prince's light-o'-love?" "She is no man's light-o'-love. Do not question me further. I may tell you nothing. She is a fugitive from the equivocal justice of France." "Politics?" "Politics." "She comes from a good family?"
"The son of the house been seeing his light-o'-love, and his mother brings him home!" "H'm," said the porch. "'Twas not that mother's way to go seeking her sons, nor ever need of it before." Olof's head dropped again. Heavily the old woman trudged up Seppala hill. "Who's this out and abroad so late?" creaked the wooden pail in its chain above the well. "Mother and son?
"Oh, yes, my lord," said Christie; "play surprise as well as you will, you must have some guess that I am speaking of the poor fool that was my wife, till she became your lordship's light-o'-love." "Your wife! Has your wife left you? and, if she has, do you come to ask her of me?"
They had been distinctly interesting to Derek, these glimpses of a joyous, idle, light-o'-love life, with a tragic element never very far below its surface, so different from his own gray career of business. They not only beguiled the tedious nights, but they opened up vistas of romance to an imagination growing dull before its time, in the seriousness of large practical affairs.
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