Treats of a Midnight Bell, and of a Scene of Early Morning
On a round of the mountains rising from Osteno, South eastward1 of Lugano, the Esquart party rose from the natural grotto2 and headed their carriages up and down the defiles3, halting for a night at Rovio, a little village below the Generoso, lively with waterfalls and watercourses; and they fell so in love with the place, that after roaming along the flowery borderways by moonlight, they resolved to rest there two or three days and try some easy ascents5. In the diurnal6 course of nature, being pleasantly tired, they had the avowed7 intention of sleeping there; so they went early to their beds, and carelessly wished one another good-night, none of them supposing slumber8 to be anywhere one of the warlike arts, a paradoxical thing you must battle for and can only win at last when utterly9 beaten. Hard by their inn, close enough for a priestly homily to have been audible, stood a church campanile, wherein hung a Bell, not ostensibly communicating with the demons10 of the pit; in daylight rather a merry comrade. But at night, when the children of nerves lay stretched, he threw off the mask. As soon as they had fairly nestled, he smote11 their pillows a shattering blow, loud for the retold preluding quarters, incredibly clanging the number ten. Then he waited for neighbouring campanili to box the ears of slumber’s votaries12 in turn; whereupon, under pretence13 of excessive conscientiousness14, or else oblivious15 of his antecedent, damnable misconduct, or perhaps in actual league and trapdoor conspiracy16 with the surging goblin hosts beneath us, he resumed his blaring strokes, a sonorous17 recapitulation of the number; all the others likewise. It was an alarum fit to warn of Attila or Alaric; and not, simply the maniacal18 noise invaded the fruitful provinces of sleep like Hun and Vandal, the irrational19 repetition ploughed the minds of those unhappy somnivolents, leaving them worse than sheared20 by barbarians21, disrupt, as by earthquake, with the unanswerable question to Providence22, Why!—Why twice?
Designing slumberers are such infants. When they have undressed and stretched themselves, flat, it seems that they have really gone back to their mothers’ breasts, and they fret23 at whatsoever24 does not smack25 of nature, or custom. The cause of a repetition so senseless in its violence, and so unnecessary, set them querying26 and kicking until the inevitable27 quarters recommenced. Then arose an insurgent28 rabble29 in their bosoms30, it might be the loosened imps32 of darkness, urging them to speculate whether the proximate monster about to dole33 out the eleventh hour in uproar34 would again forget himself and repeat his dreary35 arithmetic a second time; for they were unaware36 of his religious obligation, following the hour of the district, to inform them of the tardy37 hour of Rome. They waited in suspense38, curiosity enabling them to bear the first crash callously39. His performance was the same. And now they took him for a crazy engine whose madness had infected the whole neighbourhood. Now was the moment to fight for sleep in contempt of him, and they began by simulating an entry into the fortress40 they were to defend, plunging41 on their pillows, battening down their eyelids42, breathing with a dreadful regularity43. Alas44! it came to their knowledge that the Bell was in possession and they the besiegers. Every resonant45 quarter was anticipated up to the blow, without averting46 its murderous abruptness47; and an executioner Midnight that sounded, in addition to the reiterated48 quarters, four and twenty ringing hammerstrokes, with the aching pause between the twelves, left them the prey49 of the legions of torturers which are summed, though not described, in the title of a sleepless50 night.
From that period the curse was milder, but the victims raged. They swam on vasty deeps, they knocked at rusty51 gates, they shouldered all the weapons of black Insomnia’s armoury and became her soldiery, doing her will upon themselves. Of her originally sprang the inspired teaching of the doom52 of men to excruciation in endlessness. She is the fountain of the infinite ocean whereon the exceedingly sensitive soul is tumbled everlastingly53, with the diversion of hot pincers to appease54 its appetite for change.
Dacier was never the best of sleepers55. He had taken to exercise his brains prematurely56, not only in learning, but also in reflection; and a reflectiveness that is indulged before we have a rigid57 mastery of the emotions, or have slain58 them, is apt to make a young man more than commonly a child of nerves: nearly as much so as the dissipated, with the difference that they are hilarious59 while wasting their treasury60, which he is not; and he may recover under favouring conditions, which is a point of vantage denied to them. Physically61 he had stout62 reserves, for he had not disgraced the temple. His intemperateness63 lay in the craving64 to rise and lead: a precocious65 ambition. This apparently66 modest young man started with an aim—and if in the distance and with but a slingstone, like the slender shepherd fronting the Philistine67, all his energies were in his aim—at Government. He had hung on the fringe of an Administration. His party was out, and he hoped for higher station on its return to power. Many perplexities were therefore buzzing about his head; among them at present one sufficiently68 magnified and voracious69 to swallow the remainder. He added force to the interrogation as to why that Bell should sound its inhuman70 strokes twice, by asking himself why he was there to hear it! A strange suspicion of a bewitchment might have enlightened him if he had been a man accustomed to yield to the peculiar71 kind of sorcery issuing from that sex. He rather despised the power of women over men: and nevertheless he was there, listening to that Bell, instead of having obeyed the call of his family duties, when the latter were urgent. He had received letters at Lugano, summoning him home, before he set forth72 on his present expedition. The noisy alarum told him he floundered in quags, like a silly creature chasing a marsh-lamp. But was it so? Was it not, on the contrary, a serious pursuit of the secret of a woman’s character?—Oh, a woman and her character! Ordinary women and their characters might set to work to get what relationship and likeness73 they could. They had no secret to allure74. This one had: she had the secret of lake waters under rock, unfathomable in limpidness. He could not think of her without shooting at nature, and nature’s very sweetest and subtlest, for comparison. As to her sex, his active man’s contempt of the petticoated secret attractive to boys and graylings, made him believe that in her he hunted the mind and the spirit: perchance a double mind, a twilighted spirit; but not a mere75 woman. She bore no resemblance to the bundle of women. Well, she was worth studying; she had ideas, and could give ear to ideas. Furthermore, a couple of the members of his family inclined to do her injustice76. At least, they judged her harshly, owing, he thought, to an inveterate77 opinion they held regarding Lord Dannisburgh’s obliquity78 in relation to women. He shared it, and did not concur79 in, their verdict upon the woman implicated80. That is to say, knowing something of her now, he could see the possibility of her innocence81 in the special charm that her mere sparkle of features and speech, and her freshness would have for a man like his uncle. The possibility pleaded strongly on her behalf, while the darker possibility weighted by his uncle’s reputation plucked at him from below.
She was delightful82 to hear, delightful to see; and her friends loved her and had faith in her. So clever a woman might be too clever for her friends!...
The circle he moved in hummed of women, prompting novices83 as well as veterans to suspect that the multitude of them, and notably84 the fairest, yet more the cleverest, concealed85 the serpent somewhere.
She certainly had not directed any of her arts upon him. Besides he was half engaged. And that was a burning perplexity; not because of abstract scruples86 touching87 the necessity for love in marriage. The young lady, great heiress though she was, and willing, as she allowed him to assume; graceful88 too, reputed a beauty; struck him cold. He fancied her transparent89, only Arctic. Her transparency displayed to him all the common virtues90, and a serene91 possession of the inestimable and eminent92 one outweighing93 all; but charm, wit, ardour, intercommunicative quickness, and kindling94 beauty, airy grace, were qualities that a man, it seemed, had to look for in women spotted95 by a doubt of their having the chief and priceless.
However, he was not absolutely plighted96. Nor did it matter to him whether this or that woman concealed the tail of the serpent and trail, excepting the singular interest this woman managed to excite, and so deeply as set him wondering how that Resurrection Bell might be affecting her ability to sleep. Was she sleeping?—or waking? His nervous imagination was a torch that alternately lighted her lying asleep with the innocent, like a babe, and tossing beneath the overflow97 of her dark hair, hounded by haggard memories. She fluttered before him in either aspect; and another perplexity now was to distinguish within himself which was the aspect he preferred. Great Nature brought him thus to drink of her beauty, under the delusion98 that the act was a speculation99 on her character.
The Bell, with its clash, throb100 and long swoon of sound, reminded him of her name: Diana!—An attribute? or a derision?
It really mattered nothing to him, save for her being maligned101; and if most unfairly, then that face of the varying expressions, and the rich voice, and the remembered gentle and taking words coming from her, appealed to him with a supplicating102 vividness that pricked103 his heart to leap.
He was dozing104 when the Bell burst through the thin division between slumber and wakefulness, recounting what seemed innumerable peals105, hard on his cranium. Gray daylight blanched106 the window and the bed: his watch said five of the morning. He thought of the pleasure of a bath beneath some dashing spray-showers; and jumped up to dress, feeling a queer sensation of skin in his clothes, the sign of a feverish107 night; and yawning he went into the air. Leftward the narrow village street led to the footway along which he could make for the mountain-wall. He cast one look at the head of the campanile, silly as an owlish roysterer’s glazed108 stare at the young Aurora109, and hurried his feet to check the yawns coming alarmingly fast, in the place of ideas.
His elevation110 above the valley was about the kneecap of the Generoso. Waters of past rain-clouds poured down the mountain-sides like veins111 of metal, here and there flinging off a shower on the busy descent; only dubiously112 animate113 in the lack lustre114 of the huge bulk piled against a yellow East that wafted115 fleets of pinky cloudlets overhead. He mounted his path to a level with inviting116 grassmounds where water circled, running from scoops117 and cups to curves and brook-streams, and in his fancy calling to him to hear them. To dip in them was his desire. To roll and shiver braced118 by the icy flow was the spell to break that baleful incantation of the intolerable night; so he struck across a ridge119 of boulders120, wreck121 of a landslip from the height he had hugged, to the open space of shadowed undulations, and soon had his feet on turf. Heights to right and to left, and between them, aloft, a sky the rosy122 wheelcourse of the chariot of morn, and below, among the knolls123, choice of sheltered nooks where waters whispered of secresy to satisfy Diana herself. They have that whisper and waving of secresy in secret scenery; they beckon124 to the bath; and they conjure125 classic visions of the pudency of the Goddess irate126 or unsighted. The semi-mythological state of mind, built of old images and favouring haunts, was known to Dacier. The name of Diana, playing vaguely127 on his consciousness, helped to it. He had no definite thought of the mortal woman when the highest grass-roll near the rock gave him view of a bowered128 source and of a pool under a chain of cascades129, bounded by polished shelves and slabs130. The very spot for him, he decided131 at the first peep; and at the second, with fingers instinctively132 loosening his waist-coat buttons for a commencement, he shouldered round and strolled away, though not at a rapid pace, nor far before he halted.
That it could be no other than she, the figure he had seen standing133 beside the pool, he was sure. Why had he turned? Thoughts thick and swift as a blush in the cheeks of seventeen overcame him; and queen of all, the thought bringing the picture of this mountain-solitude to vindicate134 a woman shamefully135 assailed136.—She who found her pleasure in these haunts of nymph and Goddess, at the fresh cold bosom31 of nature, must be clear as day. She trusted herself to the loneliness here, and to the honour of men, from a like irreflective sincereness. She was unable to imagine danger where her own impelling137 thirst was pure...
The thoughts, it will be discerned, were but flashes of a momentary138 vivid sensibility. Where a woman’s charm has won half the battle, her character is an advancing standard and sings victory, let her do no more than take a quiet morning walk before breakfast.
But why had he turned his back on her? There was nothing in his presence to alarm, nothing in her appearance to forbid. The motive139 and the movement were equally quaint140; incomprehensible to him; for after putting himself out of sight, he understood the absurdity141 of the supposition that she would seek the secluded142 sylvan143 bath for the same purpose as he. Yet now he was, debarred from going to meet her. She might have an impulse to bathe her feet. Her name was Diana....
Yes, and a married woman; and a proclaimed one!
And notwithstanding those brassy facts, he was ready to side with the evidence declaring her free from stain; and further, to swear that her blood was Diana’s!
Nor had Dacier ever been particularly poetical145 about women. The present Diana had wakened his curiosity, had stirred his interest in her, pricked his admiration146, but gradually, until a sleepless night with its flock of raven-fancies under that dominant147 Bell, ended by colouring her, the moment she stood in his eyes, as freshly as the morning heavens. We are much influenced in youth by sleepless nights: they disarm148, they predispose us to submit to soft occasion; and in our youth occasion is always coming.
He heard her voice. She had risen up the grass-mound, and he hung brooding half-way down. She was dressed in some texture149 of the hue150 of lavender. A violet scarf loosely knotted over the bosom opened on her throat. The loop of her black hair curved under a hat of gray beaver151. Memorably152 radiant was her face.
They met, exchanged greetings, praised the beauty of the morning, and struck together on the Bell. She laughed: ‘I heard it at ten; I slept till four. I never wake later. I was out in the air by half-past. Were you disturbed?’
He alluded153 to his troubles with the Bell.
‘It sounded like a felon’s heart in skeleton ribs,’ he said.
‘Or a proser’s tongue in a hollow skull,’ said she.
He bowed to her conversible readiness, and at once fell into the background, as he did only with her, to perform accordant bass154 in their dialogue; for when a woman lightly caps our strained remarks, we gallantly155 surrender the leadership, lest she should too cuttingly assert her claim.
Some sweet wild cyclamen flowers were at her breast. She held in her left hand a bunch of buds and blown cups of the pale purple meadow-crocus. He admired them. She told him to look round. He confessed to not having noticed them in the grass: what was the name? Colchicum, in Botany, she said.
‘These are plucked to be sent to a friend; otherwise I’m reluctant to take the life of flowers for a whim156. Wild flowers, I mean. I am not sentimental157 about garden flowers: they are cultivated for decoration, grown for clipping.’
‘I suppose they don’t carry the same signification,’ said Dacier, in the tone of a pupil to such themes.
‘They carry no feeling,’ said she. ‘And that is my excuse for plucking these, where they seem to spring like our town-dream of happiness. I believe they are sensible of it too; but these must do service to my invalid158 friend, who cannot travel. Are you ever as much interested in the woes159 of great ladies as of country damsels? I am not—not unless they have natural distinction. You have met Lady Dunstane?’
The question sounded artless. Dacier answered that he thought he had seen her somewhere once, and Diana shut her lips on a rising under-smile.
‘She is the coeur d’or of our time; the one soul I would sacrifice these flowers to.’
‘A bit of a blue-stocking, I think I have heard said.’
‘She might have been admitted to the Hotel Rambouillet, without being anything of a Precieuse. She is the woman of the largest heart now beating.’
‘Mr. Redworth talked of her.’
‘As she deserved, I am sure.’
‘Very warmly.’
‘He would!’
‘He told me you were the Damon and Pythias of women.’
‘Her one fault is an extreme humility160 that makes her always play second to me; and as I am apt to gabble, I take the lead; and I am froth in comparison. I can reverence161 my superiors even when tried by intimacy162 with them. She is the next heavenly thing to heaven that I know. Court her, if ever you come across her. Or have you a man’s horror of women with brains?’
‘Am I expressing it?’ said he.
‘Do not breathe London or Paris here on me.’ She fanned the crocuses under her chin. ‘The early morning always has this—I wish I had a word!—touch... whisper... gleam... beat of wings—I envy poets now more than ever!—of Eden, I was going to say. Prose can paint evening and moonlight, but poets are needed to sing the dawn. That is because prose is equal to melancholy163 stuff. Gladness requires the finer language. Otherwise we have it coarse—anything but a reproduction. You politicians despise the little distinctions “twixt tweedledum and tweedledee,” I fancy.’
Of the poetic144 sort, Dacier’s uncle certainly did. For himself he confessed to not having thought much on them.
‘But how divine is utterance164!’ she said. ‘As we to the brutes165, poets are to us.’
He listened somewhat with the head of the hanged. A beautiful woman choosing to rhapsodize has her way, and is not subjected to the critical commentary within us. He wondered whether she had discoursed166 in such a fashion to his uncle.
‘I can read good poetry,’ said he.
‘If you would have this valley—or mountain-cleft, one should call it—described, only verse could do it for you,’ Diana pursued, and stopped, glanced at his face, and smiled. She had spied the end of a towel peeping out of one of his pockets. ‘You came out for a bath! Go back, by all means, and mount that rise of grass where you first saw me; and down on the other side, a little to the right, you will find the very place for a bath, at a corner of the rock—a natural fountain; a bubbling pool in a ring of brushwood, with falling water, so tempting167 that I could have pardoned a push: about five feet deep. Lose no time.’
He begged to assure her that he would rather stroll with her: it had been only a notion of bathing by chance when he pocketed the towel.
‘Dear me,’ she cried, ‘if I had been a man I should have scurried168 off at a signal of release, quick as a hare I once woke up in a field with my foot on its back.’
Dacier’s eyebrows169 knotted a trifle over her eagerness to dismiss him: he was not used to it, but rather to be courted by women, and to condescend170.
‘I shall not long, I’m afraid, have the pleasure of walking beside you and hearing you. I had letters at Lugano. My uncle is unwell, I hear.’
‘Lord Dannisburgh?’
The name sprang from her lips unhesitatingly.
His nodded affirmative altered her face and her voice.
‘It is not a grave illness?’
‘They rather fear it.’
‘You had the news at Lugano?’
He answered the implied reproach: ‘I can be of no, service.’
‘But surely!’
‘It’s even doubtful that he would be bothered to receive me. We hold no views in common—excepting one.’
‘Could I?’ she exclaimed. ‘O that I might! If he is really ill! But if it is actually serious he would perhaps have a wish... I can nurse. I know I have the power to cheer him. You ought indeed to be in England.’
Dacier said he had thought it better to wait for later reports. ‘I shall drive to Lugano this afternoon, and act on the information I get there. Probably it ends my holiday.’
‘Will you do me the favour to write me word?—and especially tell me if you think he would like to have me near him,’ said Diana. ‘And let him know that if he wants nursing or cheerful companionship, I am at any moment ready to come.’
The flattery of a beautiful young woman to wait on him would be very agreeable to Lord Dannisburgh, Dacier conceived. Her offer to go was possibly purely171 charitable. But the prudence172 of her occupation of the post obscured whatever appeared admirable in her devotedness174. Her choice of a man like Lord Dannisburgh for the friend to whom she could sacrifice her good name less falteringly175 than she gathered those field-flowers was inexplicable176; and she herself a darker riddle177 at each step of his reading.
He promised curtly178 to write. ‘I will do my best to hit a flying address.’
‘Your Club enables me to hit a permanent one that will establish the communication,’ said Diana. ‘We shall not sleep another night at Rovio. Lady Esquart is the lightest of sleepers, and if you had a restless time, she and her husband must have been in purgatory179. Besides, permit me to say, you should be with your party. The times are troublous—not for holidays! Your holiday has had a haunted look, creditably to your conscience as a politician. These Corn Law agitations180!’
‘Ah, but no politics here!’ said Dacier.
‘Politics everywhere!—in the Courts of Faery! They are not discord181 to me.’
‘But not the last day—the last hour!’ he pleaded.
‘Well! only do not forget your assurance to me that you would give some thoughts to Ireland—and the cause of women. Has it slipped from your memory?’
‘If I see the chance of serving you, you may trust to me.’
She sent up an interjection on the misfortune of her not having been born a man.
It was to him the one smart of sourness in her charm as a woman.
Among the boulder-stones of the ascent4 to the path, he ventured to propose a little masculine assistance in a hand stretched mutely. Although there was no great need for help, her natural kindliness182 checked the inclination183 to refuse it. When their hands disjoined she found herself reddening. She cast it on the exertion184. Her heart was throbbing185. It might be the exertion likewise.
He walked and talked much more airily along the descending186 pathway, as if he had suddenly become more intimately acquainted with her.
She listened, trying to think of the manner in which he might be taught to serve that cause she had at heart; and the colour deepened on her cheeks till it set fire to her underlying187 consciousness: blood to spirit. A tremour of alarm ran through her.
His request for one of the crocuses to keep as a souvenir of the morning was refused. ‘They are sacred; they were all devoted173 to my friend when I plucked them.’
He pointed188 to a half-open one, with the petals189 in disparting pointing to junction190, and compared it to the famous tiptoe ballet-posture, arms above head and fingers like swallows meeting in air, of an operatic danseuse of the time.
‘I do not see it, because I will not see it,’ she said, and she found a personal cooling and consolement in the phrase.—We have this power of resisting invasion of the poetic by the commonplace, the spirit by the blood, if we please, though you men may not think that we have! Her alarmed sensibilities bristled191 and made head against him as an enemy. She fancied (for the aforesaid reason—because she chose) that it was on account of the offence to her shy morning pleasure by his Londonizing. At any other moment her natural liveliness and trained social ease would have taken any remark on the eddies192 of the tide of converse193; and so she told herself, and did not the less feel wounded, adverse194, armed. He seemed somehow—to have dealt a mortal blow to the happy girl she had become again. The woman she was protested on behalf of the girl, while the girl in her heart bent195 lowered sad eyelids to the woman; and which of them was wiser of the truth she could not have said, for she was honestly not aware of the truth, but she knew she was divided in halves, with one half pitying the other, one rebuking196: and all because of the incongruous comparison of a wild flower to an opera dancer! Absurd indeed. We human creatures are the silliest on earth, most certainly.
Dacier had observed the blush, and the check to her flowing tongue did not escape him as they walked back to the inn down the narrow street of black rooms, where the women gossiped at the fountain and the cobbler threaded on his doorstep. His novel excitement supplied the deficiency, sweeping197 him past minor198 reflections. He was, however, surprised to hear her tell Lady Esquart, as soon as they were together at the breakfast-table, that he had the intention of starting for England; and further surprised, and slightly stung too, when on the poor lady’s, moaning over her recollection of the midnight Bell, and vowing199 she could not attempt to sleep another night in the place, Diana declared her resolve to stay there one day longer with her maid, and explore the neighbourhood for the wild flowers in which it abounded200. Lord and Lady Esquart agreed to anything agreeable to her, after excusing themselves for the necessitated201 flight, piteously relating the story of their sufferings. My lord could have slept, but he had remained awake to comfort my lady.
‘True knightliness202!’ Diana said, in praise of these long married lovers; and she asked them what they had talked of during the night.
‘You, my dear, partly,’ said Lady Esquart.
‘For an opiate?’
‘An invocation of the morning,’ said Dacier.
Lady Esquart looked at Diana and, at him. She thought it was well that her fair friend should stay. It was then settled for Diana to rejoin them the next evening at Lugano, thence to proceed to Luino on the Maggiore.
‘I fear it is good-bye for me,’ Dacier said to her, as he was about to step into the carriage with the Esquarts.
‘If you have not better news of your uncle, it must be,’ she replied, and gave him her hand promptly203 and formally, hardly diverting her eyes from Lady Esquart to grace the temporary gift with a look. The last of her he saw was a waving of her arm and finger pointing triumphantly204 at the Bell in the tower. It said, to an understanding unpractised in the feminine mysteries: ‘I can sleep through anything.’ What that revealed of her state of conscience and her nature, his efforts to preserve the lovely optical figure blocked his guessing. He was with her friends, who liked her the more they knew her, and he was compelled to lean to their view of the perplexing woman.
‘She is a riddle to the world,’ Lady Esquart said, ‘but I know that she is good. It is the best of signs when women take to her and are proud to be her friend.’
My lord echoed his wife. She talked in this homely205 manner to stop any notion of philandering206 that the young gentleman might be disposed to entertain in regard to a lady so attractive to the pursuit as Diana’s beauty and delicate situation might make her seem.
‘She is an exceedingly clever person, and handsomer than report, which is uncommon,’ said Dacier, becoming voluble on town-topics, Miss Asper incidentally among them. He denied Lady Esquart’s charge of an engagement; the matter hung.
His letters at Lugano summoned him to England instantly.
‘I have taken leave of Mrs. Warwick, but tell her I regret, et caetera,’ he said; ‘and by the way, as my uncle’s illness appears to be serious, the longer she is absent the better, perhaps.’
‘It would never do,’ said Lady Esquart, understanding his drift immediately. ‘We winter in Rome. She will not abandon us—I have her word for it. Next Easter we are in Paris; and so home, I suppose. There will be no hurry before we are due at Cowes. We seem to have become confirmed wanderers; for two of us at least it is likely to be our last great tour.’
Dacier informed her that he had pledged his word to write to Mrs. Warwick of his uncle’s condition, and the several appointed halting-places of the Esquarts between the lakes and Florence were named to him. Thus all things were openly treated; all had an air of being on the surface; the communications passing between Mrs. Warwick and the Hon. Percy Dacier might have been perused207 by all the world. None but that portion of it, sage208 in suspiciousness, which objects to such communications under any circumstances, could have detected in their correspondence a spark of coming fire or that there was common warmth. She did not feel it, nor did he. The position of the two interdicted209 it to a couple honourably210 sensible of social decencies; and who were, be it added, kept apart. The blood is the treacherous211 element in the story of the nobly civilized212, of which secret Diana, a wife and no wife, a prisoner in liberty, a blooming woman imagining herself restored to transcendent maiden213 ecstacies—the highest youthful poetic—had received some faint intimation when the blush flamed suddenly in her cheeks and her heart knelled214 like the towers of a city given over to the devourer215. She had no wish to meet him again. Without telling herself why, she would have shunned216 the meeting. Disturbers that thwarted217 her simple happiness in sublime218 scenery were best avoided. She thought so the more for a fitful blur219 to the simplicity220 of her sensations, and a task she sometimes had in restoring and toning them, after that sweet morning time in Rovio.
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