It was a small bit of the
cavernous efflorescence, which, growing on subterranean walls, takes
occasionally definite form, some specimens resembling a lily, others
being like a rose; the child tried feebly to be grateful, and put it with
care into one of the pockets of his little red coat--his pockets in which
he had once felt such plethora of pride!
VI.
When next he saw the river the lunar lustre had dulled on the currents.
No more the long lines of shimmering light trailing off into the deep
shadow of the wooded banks, no more the tremulous reflection of the moon,
swinging like some supernal craft in the great lacustrine sweep where the
stream broadens in rounding the point. Now a filmy veil was over all, yet
the night was so fine that the light filtered through the mist, and
objects were still discernible, though only vaguely visible, like the
furnishings of a dream. A rowboat was rocking on the ripples among the
boulders at the water's edge.
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