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VIII IN WHICH HERMAN’S IDEA RECEIVES A CHECK
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To the dry fog succeeded showers and intervals2 of super clearness. Vast blunt-headed clouds blundered under a high, receding3 heaven. Brown croisers of the fern uncurled from the odorous earth, some subtle instinct responded to the incessant4 stir of sap. The Outliers left off debating to run together flock-wise in the recrudescence of the year. The wet wood was full of whispering, all hours of the night feet went by bearing laughter, not loud but chuckling5 and daring.
Nevertheless, the clearing of the weather did not scatter6 them. Some there were whose affairs had called them at the end of the Meet. A few had gone in displeasure at the turn of the Council. Mancha’s supporters, and they were chiefly the young men, remained 158in the neighborhood of Leaping Water and Deep Fern, to which we had moved when the rain began. Fretted7 argument would go on where two or three of the men were met, disrupting suddenly. There was a sense of expectancy8 abroad. Men watched the Ward9 for more than her beauty as she went with the keepers, in a green gown like the sheath of a bud, her face a flower.
Ravenutzi got from Herman what silver coins he had, and smithied them into a brooch for her; it was rumored10 that you would find the twin of that pattern in the King’s Desire. Women grew curious, questioned me how the House-Folk lived and loved. They laughed and looked sidewise, but listened.
All this curious possibility of Herman’s idea, and the pricking11 sense of stir and change, drew off attention from Mancha’s passion, which burned up to the betraying point. Trastevera, who remained
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pricking
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刺,刺痕,刺痛感 | |
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