1 Roses had withdrawn for the night.
2 Sleep sound o nights without turning.
3 It was night before roads were made, or houses.
4 "She walks in beauty like the night," he quoted.
5 Within the shell of the room she overlooked the summer night.
6 Every night she opened the window and looked at leaves against the sky.
7 But they do say," she continued, "one can hear the waves on a still night.
8 Hearing the waves in the middle of the night he saddled a horse and rode to the sea.
9 It was the night that dwellers in caves had watched from some high place among rocks.
10 But first they must fight, as the dog fox fights with the vixen, in the heart of darkness, in the fields of night.
11 So none of them would walk by the lily pool at night, only now when the sun shone and the gentry still sat at table.
12 It was a summer's night and they were talking, in the big room with the windows open to the garden, about the cesspool.
13 I'm a match for any of 'em--the chits you dally with, and bid me meet you at the Orange Tree when you're drowsing the night off spent in their arms.'
14 It was Budge the publican; but so disguised that even cronies who drank with him nightly failed to recognize him; and a little titter of enquiry as to his identity ran about among the villagers.
15 It was a shock to find, after the morning's look in the glass, and the arrow of desire shot through her last night by the gentleman farmer, how much she felt when he came in, not a dapper city gent, but a cricketer, of love; and of hate.