INDIAN SUMMER 



ashamed of myself. You see that the man trained 

 to study, and if possible to &quot; do,&quot; the other fel 

 low, is baffled when he comes to take a hand at 

 doing himself. The other fellow presents the 

 advantage of always being in the singular, whereas 

 there are two or three of yourselves that take you 

 in relays. But, to tell the truth, I do not know 

 that there was any moral aspect of the case pre 

 sented to the group of me. I probably ambled 

 collectively very much like the yellow dog. As 

 I bring back the circumstances in all their dreamy 

 cajolement, I appear to have given way to the 

 evanescent enchantment more like an instinctive 

 goat than a composite and calculating fellow. To 

 be able to feel again at forty-four that elation of 

 the senses which belongs to youth ; to believe 

 once more that everything comes your way be 

 cause you want it, and to spin all the realities 

 that swim before you into ideal tissues, this is 

 to become intoxicated with one s own blood, and 

 once you begin to reel with that old ichor of the 

 gods, you no longer are able to see that you are 

 in one world, and the deceptive circumstances in 

 another. 



The boy and the dog ran to meet Griselle as 

 if even they had an intuition that she completed 

 the tune that the morning was trying to sing, and 

 they danced round her with what, centuries ago, 

 was called a &quot; glad noise.&quot; She stood a moment 

 with her dress lifted and her head up, accepting 

 the fantastic homage as a matter of course, but 

 trying to look astonished that she should have 



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