![]() “Wanting to be through with this quickly, I leaned forward and kissed him.Īlmost. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her…” He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. George had turned at the sound of her arrival. But he was not the good man that she had expected, and he was alone. ![]() Standing at its brink, like a swimmer who prepares, was the good man. But never again were they in such profusion this terrace was the well-head, the primal source whence beauty gushed out to water the earth. From her feet the ground sloped sharply into view, and violets ran down in rivulets and streams and cataracts, irrigating the hillside with blue, eddying round the tree stems, collecting into pools in the hollows, covering the grass with spots of azure foam. ![]() “Courage!” cried her companion, now standing some six feet above. She had fallen on to a little open terrace, which was covered with violets from end to end. At the same moment the ground gave way, and with a cry she fell out of the wood. ![]()
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