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There was a flood that morning. All the preceding day the rains had drenched the high slopes unceasingly. That night, the rain-clear forks of the Kentucky got yellow and rose high, and now they crashed together around the town and, after a heaving conflict, started the river on one quivering, majestic sweep to the sea.
A little way down the mountain, the rays shot through the gap upon him, and, lancing the mist into tatters, and lighting the dew-drops, set the birds singing. Rome rode, heedless of it all, under primeval oak and poplar, and along rain-clear brooks and happy waterfalls, shut in by laurel and rhododendron, and singing past mossy stones and lacelike ferns that brushed his stirrup.
Maynard?" she asked. Audrey flashed her a keen glance from her rain-clear eyes. "I think he's a sphinx," she said slowly. "The Sphinx was a lady," objected Herrick pertinently. "Mr. Trent's a masculine re-incarnation of her, then," retorted Mrs. Maynard, undefeated. Herrick smiled tolerantly.
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