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She pressed her cheek against the dead leaves, and, with the smell of the

earth in her nostrils, looked sideith half-closed eyes and made a

radiant mist of the forest round about A droarh a rift in the foliage a sunbeailded snake

For a tiold mist, she lay as

quiet as the sunbeam; of the earth earthy, in pact with the mould beneath

the leaves, with the slowly crescent trunks, brown or silver-gray, with

moss and lichened rock, and with all life that basked or crept or flew At

last, however, the ht

of what she saw It was pleasant in the forest She watched the flash of a

bird, as blue as the sky, from limb to limb; she listened to the elfin

waterfall; she drew herself with hand and ar, plucked a honeysuckle bough and brought it

back to the silver colu within her hand, she saw a ht hidden, holding his arainst

brier and branch, and looking curiously about hi which he

had come out to seek