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Updated: September 26, 2025
Gabriel was awake in a moment. It was Hope Wayne who spoke to him. About ten o'clock in the evening she knocked again gently at Gabriel's door. There was no reply. She opened the door softly and went in. A night-lamp was burning, and threw a pleasant light through the room. The windows were open, and the night-air sighed among the pine-trees near them.
Miss Bell sent for some shawls, and warned the French women that the evenings were fresh and that the night-air was dangerous. Then suddenly she said: "Darling, you know Monsieur Jacques Dechartre? Well, he wrote to me that he would be at Florence next week. I am glad Monsieur Jacques Dechartre is to meet you in our city.
And if this summer scene, with its blue sea, and wood-capped islands, and warm sun, and balmy breeze, could not make glad his heart, it would not be difficult to imagine what changes winter could bring over it, and how the old viking, sitting on his throne by the sea-shore, could enjoy the dead and icy waste before him; and how the winter drifts would whistle through his hair; and how cheery the jagged rocks would look peeping up out of the snow-drifts; and how balmy would be the night-air at sixty degrees below freezing-point; and how the old viking would shake his beard with laughter as he warmed his hands in a midday sun, only ten feet above the horizon, and make the icicles rattle on his chin; and sit thus laughing and blowing his fingers, and rattling his icy beard, and saying to himself, "What a blessing to be a Finlander!
"What I mean if you'll let me finish is, I'm getting too old to be eternally undignifying myself with this 'singing of midnight strains under Bonnybell's window-panes, and too old to be keeping myself in constant humiliation and expense by the borrowing and stringing up of old guitars, together with the breakage of the same, and the general wear-and-tear on a constitution that is slowly being sapped to its foundations by exposure in the night-air and the dew."
"Ah," he sighed, "they say that when things are at their worst they begin to mend. They are mending now, and this valley never felt, never looked, so beautiful before. How one seems to breathe in the sweet, soft, dewy night-air! It's lovely. I don't think I ever felt so truly happy.
"The Prussians have left the heights," he said, turning slowly to Marshal Lannes; "they were probably afraid of the cold night-air, and have descended into the valley to sleep. They believe we shall not take advantage of their slumber. He turned his eyes again to the gorge; suddenly his eyes flashed fire and seemed to pierce the darkness. "What is going on in the gorge below?" he asked, hastily.
"Remain, then, sire I will not rise," said the queen, with a languid smile. "Are you still suffering?" said Louis. "Only from a cold, sire; it will pass away." "A cold, for which you are indebted to the chill night-air. It would appear that the Queens of France, who lived and died without seeing the sun rise, were not so stupid, after all."
Had she seen Adelaide Birkett sitting before her glass, her face covered in her hands and shedding hot tears like rain had she seen Leam standing by her open window, letting the cool night-air blow upon her, too feverish and disturbed to rest she would not have said that every one had been happy at the ball given in honor of Josephine's marriage.
We returned from Panama by a train after dark. As the night-air from the swamps has the reputation of being deadly, every window in the car was shut. I noticed a dark-skinned citizen of either Peru or Ecuador in some difficulties with the conductor, owing to his lack of knowledge of English.
A strange spirit pervaded the Cove and the very air throbbed with premonitions. What was the matter with everything what was the matter with her? She knew that she was lonely and that she wanted Hale but what else was it? She shivered and not alone from the chill night-air and puzzled and wondering and stricken at heart, she crept back to bed.
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