The clearness of sight seemed to enhance hearing, and possibly also that imagination which is beyond both senses.

Jerome had a vague impression which he did not express to himself, that he had come to a door wide open into spaces beyond all needs and desires of the flesh and the earthly soul, and had a sense of breathing new air.

Suddenly, now that he had gained this clear outlook of spirit, the world, and all the things thereof, seemed to be at his back, and grown dim, even to his retrospective thought.

The image even of beautiful Lucina, which had dwelt with him since Sunday, faded, for she was not yet become of his spirit, and pertained scarcely to his flesh, except through the simplest and most rudimentary of human instincts.

Jerome glanced at the parcel containing the fine new vest and coat which he had purchased, and frowned scornfully at this childish vanity, which would lead him to perk and plume and glitter to the sun, like any foolish bird which would awake the desire of the eyes in another.
"What a fool I am!" he muttered, and looked at the great open of sky again, and was half minded to take his purchases back to Dale.
However, when the clear gold of the sky began to pale and a great star shone out over the west, he rose, took up his parcel, and went home.
There was a light in the parlor.