... feed them, and after givingmoderately of her store to the wood-pigeons and sparrows, she went on to the others, native and exotic, that weredisporting themselves in the water, orsunning themselves ... seeing whatsort of a girl she was, and how much in love with her subject, I in my turn told hera great deal about the birds before us, also of other birds she had never seen norheard of, in other ... positive pain; here albeit without thatlarge liberty that nature gives, they arefree in a measure; and swimming and diving or dozing in the sunshine, with the blue sky above them, they are perhapsunconscious...