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The ways of love he had called it love; it was a name like another had merely been a sort of dram-drinking. Such love was the intoxicant necessary to transfigure life to the point where all things, even work, look beautiful. Now he tasted the real draught. It flooded his veins like fire and stung like poison. And it made work, and all things else, look mean and poor and unimportant.
I looked up into his eyes, and saw in them that inquiring sympathy which could so quickly transfigure him from a lively friend into a gentle priest. "Oh, nothing," I said. I was in no mood just now to tell him anything. "Bored, that's all." And then I looked round, and noticed that the tent was full of a violet light. It was as if limelight had been turned on from behind a violet glass.
Having blistered her hands and given herself as fine a color as any on her brother's palette, she professed herself satisfied, and went back to her seat to watch the evening-red transfigure earth and sky, making the river and its banks a more royal pageant than splendor-loving Elizabeth ever saw along the Thames.
The lower part of her face is somewhat too thin for perfect beauty, and the chin is inclined to be pointed, and the cheeks are rather hollow, but the upper part is superb. Her brow is low and broad, and she folds back from it the heavy waves of her black hair in the plainest possible style. Her eyes are her chief beauty, and would transfigure any face into loveliness.
The bright color came to the pink, girlish cheeks, gratified vanity danced in her violet eyes, and as she piquantly bowed her acknowledgments, this great breath of praise seemed to transfigure and possess her.
So do the profound tides of the hormones, centering around the new creature being made in the womb, transfigure the face and constitution of the child-bearing woman. During pregnancy, in consequence, the integrity of every structure of the body is tested.
It may be doubted if the instincts of the earth-born can ever pierce the trappings of a knight-at-arms. They trust in emotions which such gear is designed to hide or transfigure. Isoult, observe, had caught Prosper out of his harness, when before the face of the sky she had thrilled him to pity.
To you, my friend, she would have appeared a hideous and ugly creature, but to me she was beautiful so gloriously does love transfigure its object. And so I am perfectly content to remain forever the son of Kala, the she-ape." "I do not admire you the less for your loyalty," said D'Arnot, "but the time will come when you will be glad to claim your own.
Perhaps it would not destroy, but only transfigure, after all, yet the test was lightning; and for whom that we love dare we venture such an ordeal, though it were to win them Paradise? No! Jenny must never know. And yet, perhaps, if Jenny had been told... Well, the greatest love for another cannot guard all the gates of chance.
Their ideas of beauty, their taste in art, influence very powerfully their own lives and those of others, and may transfigure many things which are otherwise liable to fall into the commonplace and the vulgar. If woman's taste is trained to choose the best, it upholds a standard which may save a generation from decadence.
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