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The fire had burned low, the light of a shaded lamp fell softly on the sleeping woman's face. There was a little frown between the beautiful brows, and once she sighed lightly, like a child. The man stepped softly back into the hall, and Mary touched her mistress. "Mrs. Gregory, you've dropped off to sleep!" Rachael roused, looked up, smiling bewilderedly.
He saw figures standing round the bed and about the room; his mother with the same white face as before, was still bending over the bed asking him if he knew her; a tall man in a long black coat moved noiselessly to and fro; and he saw a shaded lamp on a table a little to the right of the bed.
The island, with its white cliffs, its golden-sanded coves, its vineyards, its pleasant, shaded groves, was a paradise for lovers. And the Ida Captain Wilson insisted on that sailed the next day, carrying Phillips away with her. Gorman achieved very little by his second visit to the cave. He took with him several tools, a short axe, a screw-driver and a hammer.
A dazzling beach fringed the edge of the great basin; palms and other trees shaded it. On a high point was the castle, or fortress of San Diego, similar to, but not so ruined as old Fort Lorenzo at the mouth of the Chagres. The California steamed on, when suddenly "Boom!" sounded her signal gun, to announce her arrival.
In these shaded paths it is absolutely necessary that the whole road should be made of logs of wood, which are squared and placed by the side of each other. From the rays of the sun never penetrating the evergreen foliage, the ground is so damp and soft, that except by this means neither man nor horse would be able to pass along.
"Madame Vine is an untiring nurse to you, William," he observed, gratefully casting a glance toward her in the distance, where she had retreated, and was shaded by the window curtain. William made no reply; he seemed to be trying to recall something. "I forget! I forget!" "Forget what?" asked Mr. Carlyle. "It was something I wanted to ask you, or to tell you. Isn't Lucy come home?"
As she spoke, Jessie was gathering long sprays of the rosy vine, with its glossy leaves so beattifully shaded that it was evident Jack Frost had done his best for it.
At times it seemed as if from this remorselessly shaded avenue we should escape into the open; the trees gave way and we caught glimpses of wide plains and distant hills; then they closed upon us again, and in their chill shadow it was no comfort to know that in summer, when the townspeople got through their work, they came out to these groves, men, women, and children, and had supper under their hospitable boughs.
It was a little hill-top, with the ground sloping down on either side, then rising again in great forest-crowned hills. Two oak trees, side by side, shaded them as they watched the little clouds sailing over the harvest fields. Arthur was with them a great deal of the summer, and Beth was occupied with preparations for leaving home.
The cottage itself is built for coolness, and the broad piazza is draperied with vines, which keep out the sun from the shaded parlor. The way to make the most of a summer's day in a place like this is to rise at four, mount your horse and ride through the lanes for two hours, finding breakfast ready on your return.
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