BOOK VII. THE CAPTURE IS COMPLETEDThe shadow ofa dark cloud had fallen upon the woods, and the voices of the birds were strangely hushed.
“There is a spell about this place for me,” she said, and quoted—
“Here came I often, often in old days— Thyrsis and I, we still had Thyrsis then!”
“Where isThyrsis now?” she asked; and he smiled sadly, and responded:
“Ah me! this many a year My pipe is lost, my shepherd’s holiday! Needs must I lose them, needs with heavy heart Into the world and wave of men depart!”
Section 1. They returned to the city early in October—not so much because they minded the cold in the tent, as because their money was gone, and it was not easy to do hack-work at a distance. One had to be on the spot, to interview the editors, to study their whims and keep one’s selfin
