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But the rain had left its laughing message behind; in the full river, in the streams leaping down the fells, in the freshness of every living thing the new-leafed trees, the grass with its flowers, the rushes spreading their light armies through the flooded margins of the lake, and bending to the light wind, which had just, as though in mischief, blotted out the dream-world in the water, and set it rippling eastwards in one sheet of living silver, broken only by a cloud-shadow at its further end.
It is a state of mind and an intoxication of spirit. The little tale is a gay and joyous fantasy that plays with the imagination like the wind through new-leafed trees." New York Sun. "No one who wishes to be charmed out of himself or herself for an hour or so should neglect to read the story." Philadelphia Ledger.
And the whole June day protested with him its beauty, the clean radiance of the woods, the limpid flashing of the stream.... He hurried on. Ah, there she was! a fluttering vision through the new-leafed trees. The wood was deep spectators none. She came to his arms, and lightly clasped her own round his neck, hiding her face....
It was a brilliant morning one of those east wind days when all clouds are swept from the air, and every colour of the spring burns and flashes in the sun. Every outline was clear; every new-leafed tree stood radiant in the bright air.
An early morning wind was blowing fresh from the clover-fields, rose-gardens, and new-leafed black birch and sassafras.
Their cab, wheeling into the main thoroughfare, joined in the race of cabs flying as for life toward the East past the Park, where the trees, new-leafed, were swinging their skirts like ballet-dancers in the wind; past the Stoics' and the other clubs, rattling, jingling, jostling for the lead, shooting past omnibuses that looked cosy in the half-light with their lamps and rows of figures solemnly opposed.
He whistled and sang, turning now and then to view the bright greenness of the new-leafed aspens, to watch the circling sallies of the jaybirds, or to stare ahead to where the blues and greens and purples of the foliage and rocks merged in the distance.
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