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"It was very silly of me to faint," she said. "You could not help it; you are only human. I shall walk with you to the Beeches." "Thank you; I will not trouble you," she said quickly. He shook his head. "I do not know how long the effect of that abominable water-weed may last," he said, "and I dare not leave you to walk alone.
With Brighteye's curiosity was mingled not a little wonderment, for the shrew's furry coat presented a strange contrast of black above and white beneath, and, immediately after the shrew had dived, a hundred little bubbles, adhering to the ends of his hair, caused him to appear like a silvery grey phantom, gliding gracefully, though erratically, from stone to stone, from patch to patch of water-weed, from ripple to ripple near the surface of the stream.
I wonder what your life will be when I'm gone?" "To-morrow you will be stronger, and will be able to come into the garden." But the old nun never left her room again, and Evelyn's last memory of her in the garden was when they had sat by the fish-pond, looking into the still water, reflecting sky and trees, with a great carp moving mysteriously through a dim world of water-weed and flower.
Such is the jointed pond-sedge of the Hebrides, a water-weed found abundantly in the lakes and tarns of the Isle of Skye, Mull and Coll, and the west coast of Ireland, but occurring nowhere else throughout the whole expanse of Europe or Asia. How did it get there? Clearly its seeds were either washed by the waves or carried by birds, and thus deposited on the nearest European shores to America.
One hand keeps her balance with a pole, the other grasps a streamer of water-weed. Floating beyond her upon some kind of raft is a man, bareheaded also, in a white sweater with a rolling collar. His face is shadowed you can see that his hair, black and straight, falls over his eyes. He is raking up the weed with his hand, his arm bare to the shoulder.
"But you see for yourself, she's gaining on the shore. Look, now, how we're passing that patch o' water-weed." "I think hell is under us. Have up the clerk and put him at prayers, and you fellows take in sail each rag of it that if we strike we may go easy. Call all hands. See that the boats are clear. She minds her helm no more than a straw. God help us!"
She had lost the great enthusiasm of the night before, and felt like the little heap of ashes which such a burning and heroic self might well have left. Presently she went strolling down the road, gathering some large leaves on her way, and stopped at the brook, where she pulled up some bits of a strange water-weed, and made them into a damp, round bundle with the leaves and a bit of string.
'I am not water, yet all who are thirsty, seeing me, come toward me to drink, though I am no liquid. What am I? Ans. Mirage. 'What is it that goes along the creek, across the creek, underneath it, and along it again, and yet has left neither side? ANS. The yellow-flowering creeping water-weed. 'Here I am, just in front of you.
She came to the stream and found it running between blue-flowering mouse-ear and rushes, into a pool which deepened from a sandy shallow: so anon her borrowed raiment was lying on the grassy lip of the water, and she was swimming and disporting her in the pool, with her hair loose and wavering over her white back like some tress of the water-weed.
Godseff tells me that he has seen C. spectabile growing like any water-weed in the bogs of New Jersey, where it is frozen hard, roots and all, for several months of the year; but very few survive the season in this country, even if protected. Those fine specimens so common at our spring shows are imported in the dry state.
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