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To sit beside a river on a golden afternoon listening to its whispered melody, while the air about one is fragrant with summer, and heavy with the drone of unseen wings! -- What ordinary mortal could wish for more?
And yet, though conscious of this fair world about me, I was still uncontent, for my world was incomplete -- nay, lacked its most essential charm, and I sat with my ears on the stretch, waiting for Lisbeth's chance footstep on the path and the soft whisper of her skirts.