Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-06
By GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS

iEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS
full and supple for that of man. and the upturned brm
of the cavaliers hat disclosed beadless face of singular
sweetness with large dark eyes, and full, scarlet lips
These two paused beneath the trees and conversed
in low tones.
~ And all the while Brother Matthias dreamed of
things strange and beyond his KEN
And in his sleep he made strange blowing
~ sounds, and his fat fingers twtched. Had
s-.ssSss:fM he been wide awake he would have
EEA the up the tripod upon which
- ~ he again placed the black box, and
81 tx turned the handle slowly and carefully,
not too fast while the figure in the
~@w fxnA brown cloak posed against the heavy
4S@&%Y IA rosebushes, with the background of
the pool where grew the large
"a 10 GySXS water lies and he would have heard
cH& the man say, @Now Miss throw back
H. rz~cXU your cloak so that your short sword
Y t}Hs: N: shows. The scenario calls for sword;
y -M81 although Shakespeare says Rosalind car
, " ~ ried spear. First reel in the garden,
* h. next one at the edge of the forest. Both
"a <SAS2 will make hit When hold up my hand
III AMT you may go, and please send in Miss Drew.
MA | another reel of the wall and that old
TV oak tree. Tell her to hurry: the light is going
w fast"
3 Here Brother Matthias awakened by the sound of
voice. opened of his eyes, and beheld through the
gap in the wistara the departing graceful figure in
brown Who shall interpret his thoughts? This vision
to him unreal and intangible. Nothing of the
kind had eer before befaen him; he called fancy,
and stirred not hand foot but remained BEFORE
except that his eyes stared and rounded wildly he
the behed still another figure advancing from beneath the
ain peach toward the pathway This that of
ack fair young girl clad in of soft, cngjng
of tera She touched hands with the figure in brown for
instant passing and smiled Her feet small,
tiers and her movements quick, 1.-THE, and graceful
bell The drew back his tripod and the black box into
den the lilac bushes Then he turned the handle, and the
whirring clicking noise went again; but Brother
ea Matthias could him from where he sat beneath
are the wstara All he did the delicate girl pluck
ped ing the scarlet and white roses which she arranged
ch her hair and then reaching up the ripe peaches she
ALL capriciosy pucked, tasted, and threw them aside
his any forest nymph might The garden seemed to exert
ock fascinating influence her The time, the place,
nge heavy with perfumes seemed to ntoxcate her, She
UGH threw back her head turning from side SIDE with
hat air of content and drawing in the scented
ad breath of the flowers through her nosts and parted
did scarlet lips with of keen delight This girl in
pale ambent cnging of white gave Brother
Matthias a sensation such as he had before
perenced; but he stirred not hand nor foot
TRY
NOV Brother Matthias poet,-that heavy, gross,
uncouth body ncased sweet sensitive nature of
infinite nnocence-but his poetic ancies had yet
the srayed beyond the themes of religion well regulated
of the owery confines of the garden the heavy col
of umned cloiser. Indeed his avorite theme the
holy lives of the saints, and such consecraed themes
Der had entirely occupied his fancy.
avy But though surrounded by ndolent flowers the hum
ming of bees and the songs of ngngales, his magma
concerning these delights sternly repressed
self denied utterance So he had passed from youth to
middle age and clad in his rough brown robe held
the waist, where the waist had been, by stout
aria eathcrn belt his placid round face shone above his
He shoulders like unto the and whether IN meditation
and capon the excellence of hare his aatus,