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One afternoon towards mid-May, a strong yet soft sou'wester gale blew across Weircombe, bringing with it light showers of rain, which, as they fell upon the flowering plants and trees, brought out all the perfume of the spring in such rich waves of sweetness, that, though as yet there were no roses, and the lilac was only just budding out, the whole countryside seemed full of the promised fragrance of the blossoms that were yet to be.
It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the joyous poets of three hundred years ago; but a very tolerable, well-wearing May, that the average rustic would willingly have compounded for in lieu of Mays occasionally fairer, but usually more foul.
None loved better than Roy the ghostly music of silence; but to-night his brain was filled with the music of words not his own. "Just listen to this," he said, without preamble. His eyes took on their far-away look; his voice dropped a tone. "The night is night of mid-May; the breeze is the breeze of the South. "From my heart comes out and dances the image of my Desire.
The process of squeezing her Austrian ally when the latter was in a tight place as Italy's negotiating was interpreted commonly in America naturally aroused little enthusiasm for the nation, and when suddenly, during the stormy weeks of mid-May, Italy made her decision and broke with Austria, Americans inferred, erroneously, that her "sordid" bargaining having met with a stubborn resistance from Vienna, there was nothing left for a government that had spent millions in war preparation but to declare war.
Domicil'd at the farm-house of my friends, the Staffords, near by, I lived half the time along this creek and its adjacent fields and lanes. If the notes of that outdoor life could only prove as glowing to you, reader dear, as the experience itself was to me. I find the woods in mid-May and early June my best places for composition.
And now, at mid-May, when some of the crops were in, there was a day of merrymaking, beginning with a procession and a blessing of the fields, and then the fiddles were taken down, for the hard work lasting well into the evening made both men and women tired enough to go to bed early, when their morning began in the twilight. The orchards were abloom and sweetened all the air.
"We'll snatch at the few moments of joy the gods will vouchsafe us," he said. Sheila and Nancy were doing their Christmas shopping. The weather, which had been like mid-May even to betraying a bewildered Jersey apple tree into unseasonable bloom that gave it considerable newspaper notoriety, had suddenly turned sharp and frosty.
Through the open country Bibbs was borne flying between brown fields and sun-flecked groves of gray trees, to breathe the rushing, clean air beneath a glorious sky that sky so despised in the city, and so maltreated there, that from early October to mid-May it was impossible for men to remember that blue is the rightful color overhead.
The old maid threw herself into the affair with zest, planning and contriving like a veritable strategist; and I must admit that she was full of resource and invention. We were now in mid-May and enjoying a spell of hot summer weather. This gave the inventive Sarah the excuse for using the back garden as a place wherein to sit in the cool of the evening in the company of her niece.
On a certain sunny morning in mid-May, the Happy Family stood upon the depot platform and waited for the westbound passenger, that had attached to it the special car of the homeseekers' Syndicate. The Happy Family had been very busy during the past three weeks.
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