At the foot of the lake you stand in a trembling aspen grove, every leaf painted like a butterfly, and away to right and left round the shores sweeps a curving ribbon of meadow, red and brown dotted with pale yellow, shading off here and there into hazy purple.

What in the world are you up to now?" "A Butterfly Social, Papa.

I belong to the worldlings, of course, but I confess the idea of Jesus Christ at a Butterfly Social is tremendously incongruous.

IX A WINTER BUTTERFLY "Cap'n Rose," began Aunt Nancy.

Those bones which you see around you, are, of course, the bones of the men of whom we often speak: and the same thing happened to them which happens to a fish or a butterfly when you catch them, and they lie all still.'

'And the men and the butterfly feel the same after they are dead?' 'Precisely the same.

'What was a goose like?' 'It was a thing like a butterfly, only larger, and it kept its toes always spread out, with a skin stretched between.' 'Leally?

To strengthen my fixity I would often overwhelm myself, and her, with muttered opprobriums, calling myself 'convict,' her 'lady-bird'; asking what manner of man was I that I should dare so great a thing; and as for her, what was she to be the Mother of a world?a versatile butterfly with a woman's brow!

Ah, but the butterfly did not let me forget her brow!

Never was I more startled, and, above all, perplexed: for, beside the object soaring there like a great butterfly, I could see nothing to account for it.

The composition and harmony of the work, accordingly, is much like the pattern of that patch-work drapery that is sometimes to be met with in the mansions of the industrious, where a blue tree overshadows a shell-fish, and a gigantic butterfly seems ready to swallow up Palemon and Lavinia.

"Oh! Oh!" was all that she could say, and she could think of nothing to do, except stand on tiptoe and touch Philip Alston's cheek with a butterfly kiss.

He was painted by the young Sargent, of course, and by the aging Whistleryou remember the butterfly's portrait of him in a yellow kimono leaning against a black mantel?

" When he was only three weeks old he pointed a butterfly that lit in the yard in front of his nose.

Hardly less beautiful than these was Muiopotmos; or, the Fate of the Butterfly, an addition to the classical myth of Arachne, the spider.

All the lights of his mind had fallen upon this ideal, all the colors of the spectrum and many from heavencertain swift flashes of glory, such as are brought, in queer angles of light, from a butterfly's wing.

" Ethel Blue, flushed with excitement over this first sale, set about filling a box with the fresh butterfly blossoms, while Ethel Brown attended to the man who had begun the conversation.

She was just a little afraid that Gladys's head would be turned with all the homage paid her, or that, blinded by her present success, she would lose the deeper meanings of life and be nothing but a butterfly after all.

Having changed her Camp Fire name from Butterfly to Real Woman, she was anxious to prove her right to the name.

His sister Rosemary had wanted to come up to London to get some clothesVictory clothes they called them in those first joyous months after the armistice, and decked their bodies in scarlet and silver, even when their poor hearts went in blackand Janet had been urged to leave her own drab boarding-house room to stay with the forlorn small butterfly.

Tidings of freedom, reached you, and you flung aside every thing, forgot every thing, ran like a child after a butterfly.

An occasional butterfly drifted in and out through the patches of light and shade.

* With insects, out of the caterpillar comes the butterfly; with mankind it is the other way round, out of the butterfly comes the caterpillar.

* With insects, out of the caterpillar comes the butterfly; with mankind it is the other way round, out of the butterfly comes the caterpillar.

[Footnote 1: There is a play on words here, the Russian word for butterfly also means a woman.