As for this strange, natural spell, which you have been exercising, and of which I have heard before, though I never believed in, nor expected to witness it, I am satisfied that you still possess it.

It was my own half-concealed presence, no doubt, and some involuntary little movement of mine, that scared away your forest friends." "They are friends of mine no longer," answered Donatello.
"We all of us, as we grow older," rejoined Kenyon, "lose somewhat of our proximity to nature.

It is the price we pay for experience." "A heavy price, then!" said Donatello, rising from the ground.

"But we will speak no more of it.

Forget this scene, my dear friend.