The Dark Flower by John Galsworthy
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"Yes."
"Catch!" "Oh! I couldn't--what was it?" "Nothing." "No, but what WAS it?" "Only my star. It's caught in your hair." "Oh!" "Listen!" Silence, then, until her awed whisper: "What?" And his floating down, dying away: "CAVE!" What had stirred--some window opened? Cautiously he spied along the face of the dim house. There was no light anywhere, nor any shifting blur of white at her window below. All was dark, remote--still sweet with the scent of something jolly. And then he saw what that something was. All over the wall below his window white jessamine was in flower--stars, not only in the sky. Perhaps the sky was really a field of white flowers; |
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