184 FLORIDA DAYS.

stream; but that movement of Nature seems
to have been only one since the canoe passed
them earlier in the day. The man, with Jlay-
colored face and hair, and pale, unseeing dyes,
still leans his stubbly chin upon his hand in
precisely the same attitude which he had as-
sumed four hours before; it does not'see4 as
though he had stirred; he stares without
meditation and without perception at the clear
water. The woman holds her rod a peeled
branch of elder-at apparently the same itcli-
nation at which it was earlier in the day.
Her faded and stained pink sunbonnet hi4es a
face without any of the gentleness of wotlan-
hood; her gaunt wrists, her lean, frail bod are
without the grace of softened curves and color.
She glances up for a moment, but there ij no
inquisitiveness in her sad eyes, and then she
looks again into the water; there is not the
faintest brightening of interest in her face, *hen
her companion begins to answer dreamily some
tentative questions; his replies, however, are
only monosyllabic. Nor is this because sh' has
a greater interest either in her own thothts