And when I'm with you," she said, "I feel as if I were stuffed with—oh, with stars.
Elizabeth von Arnim... but it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.
Elizabeth von ArnimIf you weren't here I wouldn't see it," said Ingram, firmly believing it in the face of the fact that nothing ever escaped his acute vision. "I see all this only through you. You are my eyes. Without you I go blind, I grope about with the light gone out. You don't know what you are to me, you little shining crystal thing—you don't begin to realise it, my dear, my dear sweet Found-at-Last.
Elizabeth von ArnimYou are all the happiness," he said, with an energy of conviction astonishing at half-past nine in the morning, "and all the music, and all the colour, and all the fragrance there is in the world.
Elizabeth von ArnimWhat fun it all was, she thought, and how entirely new and delicious being taken care of as though she were a thing that mattered, a precious thing!
Elizabeth von ArnimOn wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.
Elizabeth von ArnimHere was the world wide-awake and yet only for me, all the fresh pure air only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by me, not a living soul hearing the nightingale but me, the sun in a few moments coming up to warm only me.
Elizabeth von ArnimIn the evening, when everything is tired and quiet, I sit with Walt Whitman by the rose beds and listen to what that lonely and beautiful spirit has to tell me of night, sleep, death, and the stars. This dusky, silent hour is his; and this is the time when I can best hear the beatings of that most tender and generous heart.
Elizabeth von ArnimNor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.
Elizabeth von ArnimI want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.
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