midday
This was imbedded in his consciousness . Soon he should go to her ... . He should find her . And as the Hindu poets falteringly called upon the lotos and the nectars ; upon the brilliance of midday athwart the plain , and the glory of moonlight upon mountain and glacier and the standing water of foliaged pools ; upon the seas at large , and the stars and the bees and the gods -- to express the triune loveliness of woman -LRB- which mere man may only venture to appraise , not to know -RRB- -- so should he , Bedient , envision the reality when the winds of the world brought him home to her heart . * * * * * There was much to do at the _ hacienda _ . The Captain was past riding a great deal , and the large hill and river property -- the coffee , cacao , cotton , cane and tobacco industries profited much better with an overseer . Still Bedient slowly realized that the hundreds of natives in touch with Captain Carreras ' plantations worked about as well for him as they knew .