CHAPTER X
WISDOM SET AT NAUGHT
LOVE, who engages himself to be the impossible, and performs all manner of valors to prove himself, makes his appointments at unwonted seasons. He got these two up at a gray hour, when to look at the sky is like looking up into a pearl. With nothing so gross as words for understanding they foresaw each other's impulse. They were led out and found each other. Voices of birds were faintly awakened among the trees. Large shapes of forests and mountains had not yet fallen asleep in the sun. The world around them had the still face of awe. They saw it only as a background for each other's face, smiling and full of color, full of the rapture of living. The moon had woven no illusions. They were not to be disappointed. They suffered no diminution of spirits in the high, even light and wide spaces. They saw each other real. They called to each other from a distance, and ran together with a thousand questions. They walked down the sloping floor of the woods while the light greatened and the
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