. The book of months . d ofivory in the red of pomegranate. Her armswere bare above the elbow, almost to the shoul-der, and beneath the smooth, satiny skin, as shemoved them in southern gesticulation at somestory she was telling us, I could see the swift andsupple play of the muscles beneath. Above usthe night was pricked with a thousand remotestars, and the warm, languid air stirred in thebushes and sighed among the vineyards like alingering caress. Now and then a breath of hotair would be tossed over us from the verandawhere the sun had baked the flag-stones all after-noon ; now and then a b
. The book of months . d ofivory in the red of pomegranate. Her armswere bare above the elbow, almost to the shoul-der, and beneath the smooth, satiny skin, as shemoved them in southern gesticulation at somestory she was telling us, I could see the swift andsupple play of the muscles beneath. Above usthe night was pricked with a thousand remotestars, and the warm, languid air stirred in thebushes and sighed among the vineyards like alingering caress. Now and then a breath of hotair would be tossed over us from the verandawhere the sun had baked the flag-stones all after-noon ; now and then a breath of coolness, a hand-ful of air that had been shaded all day by thethick vine leaves, stirred from its place and re-freshed us. Below gleamed the lights of Capri,and the murmur of the town stole softly to us, ora gay stanza would be flung into the air fromsome homeward-going peasant as he passed bythe cobbled ways. To the north a great empti- ■ •^-v:-.!■v.,^;>^.!i■^■iv;.^l,;;.^;-v ■■^V- :s^~:-j^^^. /■.7»;f
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