I have a strange inclination to walk up and down this terrace while you go and draw that tree in the Pleasaunce." "Resist that inclination; perhaps it will fly from you." "No; you fly from me, and draw.

I will rejoin you in a few minutes." "Thank you, I'm not so stupid.

You will step indoors directly." "Do you doubt my word, sir ?" asked she haughtily.
He had learned to obey all her caprices; so he went and placed himself on the west side of the oak and took out his sketch-book, and worked zealously and rapidly.

He had done the outlines of the tree and was finishing in detail a part of the huge trunk, when his eyes were suddenly dazzled: in the middle of the rugged bark, deformed here and there with great wart-like bosses, and wrinkled, seamed, and ploughed all over with age, burst a bit of variegated color; bright as a poppy on a dungeon wall, it glowed and glittered out through a large hole in the brown bark; it was Rose's face peeping.

To our young lover's eye how divine it shone! None of the half tints of common flesh were there, but a thing all rose, lily, sapphire, and soul.