yet the musician nor knows
nor conjectures the joy that his infamous treason to Sophy so little
deserves; yet, as if by those finer perceptions of sense impressed
ere they happen, by changes of pleasure and of pain, which Art so
mysteriously gives to the minds from which music is born, his airs, of
themselves, float in joy: Like a bird at the coming of spring, it is
gladness that makes him melodious.
And Alban Morley, seemingly intent upon the sketch which his amiable
niece-in-law submits to his critical taste ere she ventures to show it
to Vance, is looking from under his brows towards the grove, out from
which, towering over all its dark brethren, soars the old trysting
beech-tree, and to himself he is saying: "Ten to one that the old House
of Vipont now weather the CRISIS; and a thousand to one that I find at
last my armchair at the hearth of my schoolfriend, Guy Darrell!"
And the lake is as smooth as glass; and the swans, hearkening the music,
rest still, with white breasts against the grass of the margin; and
the doe, where she stands, her fore-feet in the water, lifts her head
wistfully, with nostrils distended, and wondering soft eyes that are
missing the master. Now full on the beech-grove shines the westering
sun; out from the gloomy beech-grove into the golden sunlight--they
come, they come--Man and the Helpmate, two lives re-betrothed--two souls
re-united. Be it evermore! Amen.
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