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Updated: April 30, 2025
On this glistening, windless day, to drift along past the bright, flat water-lily leaves over the greenish depths, to listen to the pigeons, watch the dragon-flies flitting past, and the fish leaping lazily, not even steering, letting her hand dabble in the water, then cooling her sun-warmed cheek with it, and all the time gazing at Summerhay, who, dipping his sculls gently, gazed at her all this was like a voyage down some river of dreams, the very fulfilment of felicity.
The gale that had rocked the tall trees in fury but a few days before was almost forgotten in the windless weather that had succeeded it. Master Morgan had sauntered along one of the broad woodland paths, and was now lying on his back in a sweet-smelling bed of bracken, gazing up through the trees to the blue sky beyond. Johnnie was dreaming the happy dreams of youth and the summer's noontide.
Howel, who to get such a son back would even have not thought too badly of desertion and the negative letters of the War Office said nothing of that. So early in September, after the most varied, anxious, successful six weeks in his life so far David Vavasour Williams returned to Fig Tree Court, Inner Temple. It had been a hot, windless day in London, in early September.
In the still burning air of the windless afternoon he made the waves of his agony travel as far as the O. S. N. Company's offices. Captain Mitchell on the balcony, trying to make out what went on generally, had heard him faintly but distinctly, and the feeble and appalling sound lingered in his ears after he had retreated indoors with blanched cheeks.
There was indeed no hint of the great primary season in the sacred paddock of beauty and fashion in Hyde Park, where the inverted penny chairs lay with their foreheads in the earth; and the shrivelled leaves, loosened from their boughs in the windless air, dropped listlessly round them. At night our little Mayfair Street was the haunt of much voluntary minstrelsy.
At last he heard that for which he waited the challenge of the field-watch, the answer of the burning-party. It came down to him quite clearly through the windless air. "Sadowa." Lieutenant Fevrier turned about chuckling. It seemed that in some respects the world after all was not going so ill with him that night. He crawled downwards as quickly as he could.
It was too cloudy a day for sun-loving creatures such as lizards or serpents to emerge and rustle amongst the broken stones and leaves, over all of which during the silent hours of the past night Arachne had been employed in weaving her softest and whitest textures, that the windless morning had allowed to remain intact.
The scene was one of quiet beauty; there was a clear sky and a windless air; the banks of the river high and dense masses of vegetation glowed with colour; the broad sweep of water was like a sheet of molten silver and shimmered and eddied to the play of the gleaming paddles.
"But this is no evil dream, my Edith," said Harold, gaily. Edith, unheeding him, continued: "I started from my sleep. The sun was still high the air lulled and windless.
It shone with an intense silver behind leafless boughs and behind the dark-clad boughs of firs. It came above the trees. The night hung windless and deeply clear. A fire burned upon the hearth of the room in the keep. Alexander sat before it and he sat very still, and vast pictures came to the inner eye, and to the inner ear meanings of old words....
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