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With all your pudding-mixing and your potato-planting you are moon-mad like the rest of us." She made a disdainful little gesture. "Why, I never planted a potato in my life." "Don't scoff, dear lady," he returned warningly; "too great literalness is the sin of womankind, you know." "But I don't care in the least for vegetable-growing," she persisted seriously. The humour twinkled in his eyes.
This announcement alone was enough to take one's breath away, but when the green marble shores of the Mare Nubium; the mountains shaped like pyramids, and of the purest and most dazzling crystalized, wine-colored amethyst, dotting green valleys skirted by "round-breasted hills;" summits of the purest vermilion fringed with arching cascades and buttresses of white marble glistening in the sun when these began to be revealed, the delight of our Luna-tics knew no bounds and the whole town went moon-mad!
Her arms came down slowly, her chin lowered; her pose, if you will, melted away. Her voice when she spoke was low and round and thrilled, and it sent an answering thrill through Harber. "I'm mad!" she said. "Moon-mad or tropic-mad. I didn't hear you. I was worshipping the night!" "As I have been," said Harber, feeling a sudden pagan kinship with her mood.
To Carl its message was as capricious as the wind a moon-mad chameleon changing its color with the fickle light. And in the bottle to-night lay a fierce, unreasoning resentment against Diane. "Fool!" said Carl. "One mad, eloquent lie of love and she would have softened. Women are all like that.
It was his unconscious, blundering black art, his intuition that was witchcraft. The Baron drew himself up. He put out a protesting hand, and his dignity of gesture would have shamed an Israelitish patriarch. "We called our brother to council. What does our brother mean? He is moon-mad when he talks of war in the house of his friends, the Hurons." I yawned in his face. "You called me to council?
"The only thing to smoke on such a lake," he said, "is a fairy's pipe. Come, jewel machree, happiness is the aim of life. And my happiness for the moment, is to glide forth upon the bosom of that lake with you. Look, you can even see the gleam of silver shoes where the fairies dance upon the ripples." He was indeed moon-mad in mood and irresistible.
She seemed upon the verge of kissing him, perhaps upon the nose, but changed her mind and went dancing around his chair like some moon-mad sprite. He seized her, barely in time to prevent her from crying the news aloud to Bernie, explaining hastily that she must breathe no word to any one for the time being and must first win her brother's consent.
Then just at that moment the old genie of the forests, who gloats through the seasons over myriads of wooings that are carried on in the fastnesses of his green woods, sounded a long, low, guttural groan that rose to a blood-curdling shriek, from the branches just above the head of the moon-mad man and girl.
Venetian lamps glowed like yellow witch-lights in the branches; fountains tossed moon-bright sprays of quicksilver aloft and tinkled with the splash; the waters of a sunken pool, jeweled in stars, glimmered darkly green through files of cypress. All in all, an entrancing moon-mad world of mystery and dusk-moths, heavy with the scent of jasmine and orange.
Kenny unwillingly conceded the existence of somebody with a claim upon the boat stronger than his own. "But," he went on with an air of inspiration, "somebody is in the world or he wouldn't be somebody; and the world's my friend. Therefore by moon-mad deduction somebody's my friend and I may take his boat." He released the painter, smiling up into Joan's face.
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