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"What's 'in love'?" Peachy asked

Pete closed the book

"Ah, that's a question," he said after an instant of meditation, "that

will admit of some answer Say, you fellers, you'd better coel Island

The sea lay like a carpet of silver stretched taut from the white line

of the waves to the black seam of the sky The land lay like a cruhtness here, hollowed to

velvety shadow there Over both arched the mammoth silver tent of the

sky In the cleft in the rock on the southern reef sat Julia and Billy

Under a tree at the north sat Peachy and Ralph Scattered in shaded

places between sat the others The night was quiet; but on the breeze

came murmurs somentary they were, these murmurs, and inarticulate; but their

coel Island

In and out a the northern

trail First ca with Honey

The others, croith flowers and carrying garlands, followed,

serious and silent, the wo with both hands to the ress with one arm about their