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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 wood-spirit does not shriek; it is dumb, put in Ilyusha; 'it only claps its hands and rattles. 'And have you seen it then, the wood-spirit? Fedya asked him ironically. 'No, I have not seen it, and God preserve me from seeing it; but others have seen it.
I thought of her as a wood-spirit sometimes, an expression herself of some passion of beauty in Nature, a thought of snows and starry nights and flowing rivers made visible in flesh. It is surely when seized with the urge of some primeval yearning which in man is merely sexual that Nature conceives her fair forms and manifests them, for there is a correspondence that runs through all creation.
How did you know it?" "I have met your mother, and I knew you a great many years ago." "Mr. Raleigh!" And there was the least possible shade of unconscious regret in the voice before it added, "And what was I?" "You were some little wood-spirit, the imp of a fallen cone, mayhap, or the embodiment of birch-tree shadows.
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