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Updated: May 23, 2025
I felt I can but express it by images, for it was too intangible for direct utterance as a woman feels when her child's life quickens within her; as a traveller's heart leaps up when, lost among interminable hills, he is hailed by a friendly voice; as the river-water, thrust up into creeks and estuaries by the incoming tide, is suddenly freed by the ebb from that stealthy pressure, and flows gladly downwards; as the dark garden-ground may feel when the frozen soil melts under warm winds of spring, and the flower-roots begin to swell and shoot.
"Oh yes, the dear ghost and all!" cried Valetta. The acclamation was general, for the Reverend Armine Brownlow was the cynosure curate of the lady Church-helpers, and Mysie produced as a precious loan, to show what could be done, the volume containing the choicest morceaux of the family magazine of his youth, the Traveller's Joy, in white parchment binding adorned with clematis, and emblazoned with the Evelyn arms on one side, the Brownlow on the other, and full of photographs and reproductions of drawings.
The Somali, about as bad a lot as any amongst the rovers, will not admit a stranger into their country, unless accompanied by one of their tribe, who becomes answerable for the traveller's actions, and even with this passport he is watched with the eyes of Argus.
Cicely dragged down a plumy spray of traveller's joy and wound it above her friend's forehead; and thus wreathed, with her bright pallour relieved against the dusky autumn tints, Justine looked like a wood-spirit who had absorbed into herself the last golden juices of the year.
The tinkle of the traveller's bells, after growing louder, had faded away quickly, and the tumult of barking dogs in the village had calmed down at last. My uncle, lounging in the corner of a small couch, smoked his long Turkish chibouk in silence. "This is an extremely nice writing-table you have got for my room," I remarked.
The setting sun shone over the graves; not a leaf moved on the trees; all was still still as death in the city of the silver-mines, of which this traveller's reminiscence is but a frame around the shop-boy who leaned over the counter. By the high road into the forest there stood a solitary farm-house.
"It costs me," he told her, "six francs fifty a day wine included." "What!" cried she, mistrusting her ears. "Yes," said he. "Fudge!" said she, not to be caught with chaff. "It sounds like a traveller's tale, I know; but that's so often the bother with the truth," said he. "Truth is under no obligation to be vraisemblable. I'm here en pension." Lady Blanchemain sniffed.
I don't think it a laughing matter, nor Cecil either, that he should have been led to turn his back upon all that is great and glorious!" "That's very fine," said Fordham, who was in a teasing mood. "Had you not better put it into the 'Traveller's Joy?" "I shall never touch the 'Traveller's Joy' again!" and Sydney's high horse suddenly breaking down, she flew away in a flood of tears.
Orchids of the Brazils festoon unknown trees with the rose and purple butterflies formed by their brilliant blossoms, and colossal traveller's palms, so-called from the draught of water obtained by incision of the stem, stud the glades with stiffly-fluted fans.
"And what do you think came into my head?" she asked. "Toast and water," said Chris, maliciously. "No, you monkey. I began to think of hedgeflowers, and travellers, and Traveller's Joy." Aunt Catherine shook my hand here, and dropped it. "And you thought how nice it was for the poor travellers to have such nice flowers," said Chris, smiling, and wagging his head up and down.
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