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Updated: May 18, 2025
The Mayfly filly, hardly accustomed to her new quarters, scraped at her straw a little; and the few night-flitting things bats, moths, owls were vigorous in the warm darkness; but the peace of night lay in the brain of all day-time Nature, colourless and still. Men and women, alone, riding the hobbyhorses of anxiety or love, burned their wavering tapers of dream and thought into the lonely hours.
He said that he had not been able to pay his landlord anything for three years, but if he could pay only a quarter's rent, he would obtain a respite, or if he persisted in turning him out, he could make a night-flitting of it, and take up his abode somewhere else. As he only wanted twenty ducats, I took out six sequins and gave them to him.
Benham broke off with a laugh that sounded loud and harsh in the silent night air. Medland ground his heel into the gravel. "How it will please your Methodist friends, and the swells at Government House! You can tell 'em all about that trip to Meadow Beach under the name of what was it? Christie, wasn't it? And about your night-flitting, and " "Hold your tongue." "Oh, there's no one to hear now.
While they waited, sending off long stories by telegraph to their papers every night, they saw the exodus of the proscribed begin, increase, and end. The night-flitting women went first, urged away by the necessities of the flaccid fish which lived upon their shame. The gamblers and gamekeepers followed close behind.
The Mayfly filly, hardly accustomed to her new quarters, scraped at her straw a little; and the few night-flitting things bats, moths, owls were vigorous in the warm darkness; but the peace of night lay in the brain of all day-time Nature, colourless and still.
He said that he had not been able to pay his landlord anything for three years, but if he could pay only a quarter's rent, he would obtain a respite, or if he persisted in turning him out, he could make a night-flitting of it, and take up his abode somewhere else. As he only wanted twenty ducats, I took out six sequins and gave them to him.
All day a concert of birds had filled the upper chambers of the trees with silver pipings, but now not a bird voice spoke. There was silence, except for a faint mysterious stirring, as of dryads beginning to wake and dress for their night-flitting when a moonbeam should tap on their shut doors. The lilac haze floated up from the ground, and slowly, very slowly, turned to silver touched with rose.
The Mayfly filly, hardly accustomed to her new quarters, scraped at her straw a little; and the few night-flitting things bats, moths, owls were vigorous in the warm darkness; but the peace of night lay in the brain of all day-time Nature, colourless and still.
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