On the Bright Shore
pens around them. For that matter, let them see me with my great man!"
And turning her head, she looked with a smile into his eyes,—
"Doesn't the great man wish that himself?"
"Of course, let them see us!" answered Svirski, raising her hand to his lips.
"Then we will go down; I like well enough to see the shooting."
"Let us go."
And after a while they were on the great steps leading to the shooting-gallery.
"How bright it is here! How pleasant, and how happy I am!" said Pani Elzen.
Then, though there was no one near them, she asked in a whisper, "But you?"
"My light is with me!" answered he, pressing her arm to his breast.
And they began to descend. The day was uncommonly bright, the air golden and azure; the sea was dark in the distance.
"We will stay here awhile," said Pani Elzen. "The cages are perfectly visible from this spot."
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