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Updated: June 16, 2025
"To think of water actually running around loose in this world!! And think of us up on that dry prairie, paying fifty cents a barrel for it and a lot slopped out of the barrel on the road!" She glanced down into Andy's love-lighted eyes, and her own softened. She placed her hand on his shoulder and shook her head at him with a tender remonstrance.
And he noticed that her hair looked like little wings on either side of her brow, as if her face were a white bird with dark wings, flying to love! Now she was close, so close that he could see her lips parted, and her eyes love-lighted like nothing in the world but darkness wild with dew and starlight.
"Those roses, the brightest that earth ever gave, Those grottoes and gardens and fountains so clear!" and above all of "Those love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave," should shed its influence largely on his imagination, and that, in contrast to his own dry and dusty native plains, Cashmere should well be called the Hindoo's Paradise.
An artist with an appreciative eye might have said that the face of that mother was like a composite picture of all the Madonnas of the old masters tender, love-lighted yet far-seeing and reverent. Amanda had always loved Mrs. Landis and spent many hours in her home, attracted by the baby there always was one, either in arms or just wobbling about on chubby little legs.
Colonel Smith appeared to be particularly moved, and I heard him humming under his breath, greatly to my astonishment, for this rough soldier was not much given to poetry or music: "Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave; Its temples, its grottoes, its fountains as clear, As the love-lighted eyes that hang 'oer the wave." Mr.
"But we had each other and the vision to see all these things coming to us," Virginia said as she looked up into her husband's face with love-lighted eyes. "I wonder where Jim is." "Jim is present." Jim Shirley came in quietly from the side porch. "He prepared your wedding supper for you.
To the abundance of these streams the inhabitants are indebted for the crops of waving rice which spread their delicately-green carpetting over the entire valley; the purity of the waters give to the silks the brightness of their dyes and to their shawls their fame; and from its virtues also the love-lighted eyes are supposed to derive their far-famed lustre.
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