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Make an effort! If you don't gain some sense for yourself you'll be a simpleton and of no account at all to your dying day." All at once a long drawn-out, moaning sound is heard in the forest. Something rustles in the leaves as though torn from the very top of the tree and falls to the ground. All this is faintly repeated by the echo. The young man shudders and looks enquiringly at his companion.
Outside, in the cemetery, the tombs have opened and the dead wrapped in their white shrouds have risen from them." "The end of the world!" "The beginning of the world!" "Jesus Christ!" "JESUS CHRIST!" rustles through the crowd like the spring breezes over the desert. The words sound through the whole of Jerusalem, they sound throughout the broad land of Judaea, these words of all power.
It rustles through the foliage, the bright, green foliage, that contrasts so dazzlingly with the smooth, white, sandy beach, it lifts the soft, silky locks of that beautiful infant, that is cradled so lovingly in my father's arms. Oh! whose do you think that smiling cherub is, with such dark, velvet eyes, and pearly skin, and mouth of heavenly sweetness?
But in the night, even the least superstitious person in the world will be awed by the solemnity pervading our cities of the dead, and will quicken his pace as the wind rustles mournfully through the shrubbery. I never should care to go into a grave-yard at night, as a matter of choice; but business is business, and must be transacted, no matter how unpleasant the surroundings may be.
It is only that deciduous foliage of facts which every generation leaves heaps of behind it dry, and dead, that he rustles through with eyes so royally unconcerned. As a good example of Mr. White's style, we should be inclined to cite the Introduction to "Love's Labor's Lost," from which we detach this single crystal:
Every fort of prejudice, every citadel of reason rested now upon foundations that quaked, and would fall at the first shock. Doom was about him. As the silence rustles in the deadly hush of the storm that brings winter upon the forest, he waited unconscious as a leaf in the imminence of the autumn moment; and in such a stillness, awaiting a change of soul, he received a letter from Lizzie.
The woods are festooned with air-plants and parasites; palm trees dot the landscape in every direction or run in splendid avenues, sometimes in double rows, alternating with the round, full mamey tree, whose deep green foliage brings into fine relief the white stalk of the palm. The breeze rustles through the broad plantations of bananas and sways the orange groves.
It depends on the light, and anyhow it's hideous; it's very stiff, and rustles. 'I know. Shot taffeta! Oh, that's a very bad sign. Has she worn it lately? 'Yes, she has, a good deal. 'What's been the matter? 'Oh, she has may I smoke? Thanks some mysterious grievance against you. She's simply furious. It seems it has something to do with somebody called Jane's sister. 'Oh! Tell me about it.
Love may wither my heart till it rustles in my breast like a dried leaf, but I will never, never let her know how I love her. And see here, Doc, promise me that you will not tell her I love her nay, I insist on it." Thus importuned I said, though it went much against the grain, for that was the very thing I had intended, "She shall not learn it first through me."
It is evident he has found what he seeks. "Dulce, I think I told you Stephen Gower was coming to-night," says Roger, simply. And then Dulce rises and rustles up to him, and filled with the determination to keep sacred her promise to be particularly nice to Roger's friend, holds out to him a very friendly hand, and makes him warmly welcome.
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