Excerpt: ...a great many of the trees were evidently not more than fifteen or twenty years old and grew very close. The sunlight was shut out, save for daggers of blue between the trunks toward the west. The air seemed hushed, as if twilight were already brooding here. The little brook rippled softly. As we came to the first crossing, I pointed to the pool, already dark with shadow, and said, "It was wrong of me to play Actseon to your Diana, but I am not ashamed nor sorry. You were very charming in the dappled light, and ...
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Excerpt: ...a great many of the trees were evidently not more than fifteen or twenty years old and grew very close. The sunlight was shut out, save for daggers of blue between the trunks toward the west. The air seemed hushed, as if twilight were already brooding here. The little brook rippled softly. As we came to the first crossing, I pointed to the pool, already dark with shadow, and said, "It was wrong of me to play Actseon to your Diana, but I am not ashamed nor sorry. You were very charming in the dappled light, and you were doing a natural thing, and in among these little pines, perhaps, two friends may be two friends, though they are man and woman." She did not reply at once, but stood beside me looking at the dark pool and apparently listening to the whisper of the running water against the stepping-stones. Finally she said with a little laugh," I have always thought that perhaps Diana was unduly severe. Come, we must be moving on." As the path swung out by the road, we heard a carriage, and stopped, keeping very still, to watch it drive past within twenty feet of us. The occupants were quite unaware of our existence behind the thin screen of roadside alders. "How exciting!" she half whispered when the carriage had gone by. Once more we entered the pines, following the new path over the brook again to the spot where we first had met. There I touched her hand. "Let us wait for the thrush here," I whispered. I could see her glimmering face lifted to mine. "Why here?" she asked. "Because it was here we first heard him." "Oh, forgive me," she answered. "I didn't realize! The path has made it look different, I guess. Forgive me. She spoke very low, and her voice was grieving. Did it mean so much to her? A sudden pang went through my heart--and then a sudden hot wave of joy--and then sudden doubts. I was silent. So was the thrush. Presently I touched her hand again, gently....
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