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Updated: June 10, 2025
The gleam of those eyes, those glistening gray irises streaked with threads of gold that started from the centre like rifts of light, giving her gaze a soft, star-like radiance, thrilled him with nervous rapture that was almost a spasm.
About three centuries ago its eruptions were frequent; and its Mexican name, Citlaltepetl, "Mountain of the Star," carries us back to the time when it showed in the darkness a star-like light from its crater, like that of Stromboli at the present time, when one sees it from a distance. San Antonio de Abajo is a quaint little village, frequented by muleteers and smugglers.
And it is clear that the conjunction of the Crescent as the symbol of the Female Principle of Life with the star-like figure which represented the radiate, life-giving, or impregnating Sun, must have not only signified Life, but also the necessarily bi-sexual Giver of Life. We are thus brought to the conclusion that the Cross and the so-called Crescent are more or less allied in signification.
Once or twice the up-stage had been overtaken and passed by a rushing figure as shadowy as a phantom horseman, with only the star-like point of a cigarette to indicate its humanity. It was in one of these fierce recreations that he was obliged to stop in early morning at the blacksmith's shop at Rough-and-Ready, to have a loosened horseshoe replaced, and while waiting picked up a newspaper.
"The doctor brought me here," she went on brightly; "but as you were asleep, he could not wait. Are you feeling better, Bob?" The soft, star-like eyes did not wander in their gaze. "Why did you come?" he breathed finally. His voice was surprisingly musical. "Why?" faltered Ruth. "Oh, to bring you these roses. Do you care for flowers, Bob?" She lifted the mass of delicate buds toward him.
He gazed at her in speechless suspense, and saw as in a vision the pure radiance of her face and star-like eyes shining more and more closely upon him. Then came a touch, soft and sweet as a roseleaf pressed against his lips, and for one mad moment he remembered nothing, he was caught up like Homer's Paris in a cloud of gold, and knew not which was earth or heaven.
The Grotto shone from afar, with its multitude of lighted tapers, similar to the illumination round a coffin, though all that you could distinguish was a star-like blaze, from the midst of which, with visionary whiteness, emerged the statue of the Virgin in its niche.
"They have been more than usually troublesome lately, and I want every one to go, so that we can have a fresh batch in their places when you come, darling; for you will come I know you will early next week. And, Rose, I will even be a little bit good for you." There was a suspicion of tears in the wild, star-like eyes, and then the queer little creature flashed out of sight.
A patient girl, after waiting day by day for her betrothed for many a month, at last, worn out with watching, sank exhausted by the wayside and expired. But before many days had passed, a little flower with star-like blossoms sprang up on the spot where the broken-hearted maiden had breathed her final sigh, which was henceforth known as the "Wegewarte," the watcher of the road. Mr.
Those, also, I said to myself ill-humouredly, were probably stage jewels.... I cannot account for the sudden train of associations this word evoked: sweeping, magnificent gestures, star-like eyes, and a goddess' brows shining through innumerable years; a bar or two of melodious ritornello; an ineffable sense of poetry and grandeur, and but I am not sure a note or two of a distant, distant voice.
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