From: Baldy <bo...@um...> - 2010-03-23 22:40:51
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and very costly collar, with a shining hat on his head, walked over the ground with even tread; he listened rather than spoke, there was a silent satisfaction in his smile, when suddenly an immense brightness reflected from a tree, directly in front, dazzled his eyesight. The tree, which resembled a lofty pillar, had on each of its branches a plume, cut as it were delicately from alabaster, every feather of this plume flamed like a torch lighted in a rainbow. Sheafs of rainbow gleams shot out of that wonderful carving, and from that fountain of many-colored light. Darvid put his glasses on his nose suddenly, and said with a painful twist of the mouth: "What unendurable light!" The architect looked at the tree and said, with a smile: "No man, not even a Greek master, has ever finished a pillar like that." "The only pity is that it cannot be used," replied Darvid, smiling also. "You are not a lover of nature, that is true; while I--" began the engineer. "On the contrary, on the contrary. During intervals I have looked at nature here and there," said Darvid, playfully. "Bu |