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It may have been the satiny smoothness of the sheets, the silk eiderdown quilt, with its plumy yellow chrysanthemums, the pale yellow scrim curtains, across whose lower borders young brown ducks followed each other in stately procession; the home-made table with its gray linen runner, across which a few larger ducks paraded, and which held a large lamp, with a well-flounced shade; the soft buff walls, with their border of yellow autumn woods, sun-sweet and cool, with leaf-strewn paths that would be springy to walk on.
The beauty of nature, that had lost its power of appeal to his sodden soul, now stirred him to the very depth of his being. The crisp, sun-sweet air of the autumn mornings, when he went forth with his ax to the day's clean labor, was a draught of potent magic that set every nerve of him tingling with delight.
The Story Girl shook her head. "No, not quite. It looks like spring, but it isn't spring. It's as if everything was resting getting ready to sleep. In spring they're getting ready to grow. Can't you FEEL the difference?" "I think it's just like spring," insisted Felicity. In the sun-sweet place before the Pulpit Stone we boys had put up a board table.
Instead, though, fighting his fears, he turned on his back for a moment with his round face to the blue breeze-swept sky, and took long, grateful breaths of the sun-sweet air. Above him a grey gull swept in a wide circle, uttering harsh, discordant cries. Then, his panic gone, "Brownie" turned over again and struggled on with renewed strength and courage.
She had made an errand down to the business portion of the little town for the sheer pleasure of the going and coming, a morning errand, as the afternoons were sacred to tea, and now was coming leisurely back, sniffing the sun-sweet air.
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