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to have taken on a knowledge of their doubts, of their sufferings,
veiling herself, & sending blue bending her head, & letting her
compassionate gaze fall brooding, in beautiful transient melancholy, in
sp[?]56 flying shadows, in sprinkles of sof small rain,
          Now again when spring was far advanced it was possible to
attempt the house again; with allies - flies, gnats, spiders, sm wh[?]
for allies, so & now[?]57 that when the wind & the began to breathe & the
shawls & coats to move a there moved with them a
flies buzzed with them round & round in the sun, & there could be heard [?]th tapping at the
long windows some the leaves of some tall          greenquickly shooting58 plant.
Then the light stroke of the lighthouse, which had laid itself
with authority upon the bedmat& carpet when the nights were dark,
seen59 came with the moonl mixed with moonlight, gliding gently &
stealthily, [?] as if it laid its caress upon & lingered was came
& went, & came lovingly again.     But in the midst of this
loving caress, for no reason, – except perhaps that the damp
had loosened it imperceptibly, & the w wind
dislodged it, the shawl burst asunder. Another fold was
had fallen. A long streamer now hung from the
boar's skull & was60 fanned gently, this way & that way,
in those short spring nights, full of sl s mo light fro
silver from the moon & the lighthouse, & those hot
days, when the grasses scarcely tapped upon the pane, &
only one tortoise shell butterfly dashed from window to
window.

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