Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . guests, gazing far into the dying fire. We return to our reading. Helaynegives me a smell of a spotless flowerof fields and woods culled from the fer-tile and blessed brain of HamiltonMabie, while I in turn set up a scenefor her of three old tattered men meet-ing at a cross road. They stand therecowering from fear, one blind, one witha loss of his left arm, the third with hisright foot lopped off—examples of theextreme rigor against malcontents ofWilliam the Conqueror. And, Humedoes not ring the curtain down untilthe last hideous act of th
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . guests, gazing far into the dying fire. We return to our reading. Helaynegives me a smell of a spotless flowerof fields and woods culled from the fer-tile and blessed brain of HamiltonMabie, while I in turn set up a scenefor her of three old tattered men meet-ing at a cross road. They stand therecowering from fear, one blind, one witha loss of his left arm, the third with hisright foot lopped off—examples of theextreme rigor against malcontents ofWilliam the Conqueror. And, Humedoes not ring the curtain down untilthe last hideous act of the tragedy. And so we pass the day dreamingand reading in the hearth circle in thelibrary, the room to which one comeswhen the snow drifts outside and theblinds are shaken by the winter
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