"Jesus bless all of them! they truly are good lads."
It had been now near on eight o'clock and much more than two hours ago since first the dawn broke over that horizon that is low-lying which appears up to now away, and tinged the vast immensity for the simple first with grey then with mauve and pale-toned emerald, with flower and carmine and crimson and blood-red, before the suntriumphant and glorious at lastwoke the sunflowers from their rest, gilded every small blade of lawn and each sprig of rosemary, and caused every mind of stately maize to quiver with pleasure during the heat of their kiss.