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These were not troopers; they were small men, on foot, linen-clad, moving stealthily, and as if in fear; only the tubes of their muskets glistened in the light of the great planets. She crouched down lower and lower, trying to enter the ground and hide; she hoped they would go onward, and then she could run faster than they and reach the hollow, and warn Adone and his fellows.
This was more than I could stand and feeling less than a worm, I turned my face into her breast and wailed. Now who would have thought that girl could dance as she did? By this time I was in such a solution of grief that I would soon have had to be sopped up with a sponge if Pet hadn't run in bubbling over like a lovely, white, linen-clad glass of Rhine wine and seltzer.
No, I do not want to live in that small village in a brown mud hut, shared with another wife to that gaunt blue linen-clad man; I would kill them all and be free. I want to go on, beloved on to the desert for you and me alone, with its wonderful passion, and wonderful peace...."
There was a murmur of wind in the tops of the trees and a stirring of linen-clad girls near the temple entrance voices droning from the near-by booths behind the shrubbery one flute, like the plaint of Orpheus summoning Eurydice a blossom- scented air and an enfolding mystery of silence.
Lucretius was a poet to whom the gods were idle and irrelevant; yet to that pageant he goes for a picture of the miraculous life of nature. More splendid still were the rites of the Egyptian Isis, celebrated all over the world. Her priests, shaven and linen-clad, carried symbols of an unguessed antiquity and magical power.
"One did ought to be happy in a shop," she said with a note of unusual softness in her voice. It seemed to him that she was right. One did ought to be happy in a shop. Folly not to banish dreams that made one ache of townless woods and bracken tangles and red-haired linen-clad figures sitting in dappled sunshine upon grey and crumbling walls and looking queenly down on one with clear blue eyes.
"I am glad of it," said Monsieur de St. Gre, taking a chair. "Andre, fill the glasses." The silent, linen-clad mulatto poured out the Madeira, shot a look at Auguste, and retired softly. "There has been a heavy rain, Monsieur," said Monsieur de St. Gre to me, "but I think the air is not yet cleared. I was about to say, Mr.
"I am glad of it," said Monsieur de St. Gre, taking a chair. "Andre, fill the glasses." The silent, linen-clad mulatto poured out the Madeira, shot a look at Auguste, and retired softly. "There has been a heavy rain, Monsieur," said Monsieur de St. Gre to me, "but I think the air is not yet cleared. I was about to say, Mr.
All they kept silence, And thought what to speak, Then all at once Answer gave: "Full enow are death-doomed, Fain are we to live yet, Maids of the hall All meet work winning." "From her wise heart at last The linen-clad damsel, The one of few years Gave forth the word: "I will that none driven By hand or by word, For our sake should lose Well-loved life.
The linen-clad negro who presided there met his questioning glance with a slight nod, and the visitor passed without hesitation through a curtained opening to the rear of the place, along a passage, up a flight of narrow stairs until he arrived at a door on the first landing. He knocked and was at once bidden to enter. For a moment he listened as though to the sounds below.
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