Jeffery Farnol

“ But now, Anthea came up behind them, and, not noticing the position of Bellew’s arm as she leaned on the other side of Small Porges, it befell that her hand touched, and for a moment, rested upon Bellew’s hand, hidden as it was in the shadow. And this probably began it.
The air of Arcadia, as has been said before, is an intoxicating air; but it is more, it is an air charged with a subtle magic whereby the commonest objects, losing their prosaic, matter-of-fact shapes, become transfigured into things of wonder, and delight. ”

“ Anthea and Miss Priscilla were busied upon household matters wholly feminine, wherefore Small Porges had drawn Bellew to the window, and there they leaned, the small body enfolded by Bellew’s long arm, and the two faces turned up to the silvery splendour of the moon. ”

“ But the moon’s got to be a Money Moon, and you’ve got to know, you know, else you’ll find nothing, of course.”
“Ah Georgy dear!” sighed Anthea, stooping her dark head down to his golden curls, “don’t you know that fortunes are very hard to get, and that they have to be worked for, and that no one ever found one without a great deal of labour, and sorrow?”
“’Course—everyone can’t find fortunes, Auntie Anthea, I know that, but we shall,—my Uncle Porges knows all about it, you see, an’ I know that we shall. ”