. The book of months . THE BOOK OF MONTHS do anything which tends towards that chaoswhich must exist without morahty. The gale has blown itself tired, and now, as Istand on the doorstep about midnight lookingout, an extraordinary peace prevails. The moonis high in a heaven bare of clouds and the air isutterly calm and windless. It seemed to me im-possible, only a few hours ago, that so serene atranquillity should succeed the wild riot of to-day. And steadfast remain the stars; they havenot, as seemed almost inevitable, been blown,like those heaps of dead leaves, about the floor ofthe skies, so
. The book of months . THE BOOK OF MONTHS do anything which tends towards that chaoswhich must exist without morahty. The gale has blown itself tired, and now, as Istand on the doorstep about midnight lookingout, an extraordinary peace prevails. The moonis high in a heaven bare of clouds and the air isutterly calm and windless. It seemed to me im-possible, only a few hours ago, that so serene atranquillity should succeed the wild riot of to-day. And steadfast remain the stars; they havenot, as seemed almost inevitable, been blown,like those heaps of dead leaves, about the floor ofthe skies, so that one quarter was bare, while inanother the Pleiades had been blown against theTwins and Orion sat on Cassiopeias chair. The morning of the 27th was of the samepellucid serenity as the midnight before. Thetrees were much barer than they had beentwenty-four hours before, and the inimitabletracery of these branches against the sky was260 ^V ■s%9;. OCTOBER outlined with the precision of the south. Thesun was extraordinarily warm, and I sat out foran hour in the morning to the chuckling of birdsin the bushes and an unread paper. Then inthe afternoon I went to the cathedral for theevening service. It has happened. For years past, as youknow, I have felt certain it would happen on thisday, and when it happened I knew it could nothave been otherwise. Thus: The service was at half-past three, and I gotto the cathedral, I suppose, some five minutes be-fore it began and was given a stall on the southside. Through the windows behind me the sunstreamed low and nearly level, for it was not farfrom its setting, and I went over again a certainOctober 27th, years ago, when I got home toolate and knew that one of the sweetest and dear-est souls that ever lived on earth had gone261 %i*iV:U>i
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