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Updated: June 5, 2025
She saw the white cascade, the stars wavering in the shaken pool, foam flitting, and high overhead the tall pines on either hand serenely drinking star-shine; and in the sudden quiet of her spirit she heard with joy the firm plunge of the cataract in the pool. She scrambled forth dripping.
I could not distinguish the faces of the fellows, but counted nine altogether in the boat, and felt assured the huge bulk at the foot of the mast was the Dutchman Schmitt. Beyond these dim outlines there was nothing for the eye to rest upon, only a few yards of black sea in every direction, rendered visible by the reflected star-shine and the dull glow of crested waves.
"The swale sends you this invitation to come and see star-shine at the foot of mullein hill," said the Harvester, offering a bouquet. It was a loose bunch of long-stemmed, delicate flowers, each an inch across, and having five pearl-white petals lightly striped with pale green. Five long gold anthers arose, and at their base gold stamens and a green pistil.
Then she thought of it, for it seemed to her that she could hear the stars saying: "There is the little girl who is so faithful and good"; and Minnie turned her face to the wall, for a little voice, right in her own heart, said: "Dust under the rug! dust under the rug!" "There is the little girl," cried the stars, "who keeps home as bright as star-shine."
I left that place where the star-shine was showing the grim skeleton of the shaft-work overhead in the night, and where men moved about below in the indeterminate dark like dismal gnomes. There was a woman whose cry, when Welsby died, was like a challenge. Next morning, in Great Barr, some blinds were down, the street was empty.
At Cairnryan the press-gang would be re-formed. They might find their way to a spot to which they had once been led, and most important of all, some night towards the dark of the moon, the Good Intent would be seen, between the star-shine and the luminous sea, making her way up the firth with the first "run" of the year.
And when the stars came out brighter than ever with the burnishing of the gale the long black backs of the waves, and the darker hollows between, were sown so thick with trailing gleams that he could not be certain whether it was only star-shine or phosphorescence.
But surely there was a gleam that seemed to move and come fitfully towards him or was it only star-shine dancing on the waves of the Race which always ran against the tide? He stood to watch, then lost the gleam, and crouched again disappointed.
But I'm not a bad sort at bottom," he added, seeing his interlocutor looked distressed even in the dim star-shine, "and I rather like the play, and music, and guitars, and things." Léon had a perception that the understanding was incomplete. He changed the subject. "And so you travel on foot?" he continued. "How romantic! How courageous! And how are you pleased with my land?
Why should the strange, burnt-out old cinder of a satellite be the star of lovers? The answer lies hid, I suspect, in the mysteries of light reflected. He wandered along, careless of time, of moonset, star-shine, or sunrise, brooding on many things in the rayless radiance of his love, and by the time he reached the tomb, was weary with excitement and lack of sleep.
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