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It was a lovely wood: broad-leaved arums and primroses, and violets blue and white, covered the ground in spring, and in summer there were hundreds and hundreds of glow-worms, and the old tree-trunks were wreathed with ivy and honeysuckle.
And, Hutton, you're sure we can't disturb Lady Henry?" Hutton's expression was not wholly confident. "Her ladyship's very quick of hearing, miss. But I'll shut those doors at the foot of the back stairs, and I'll ask every one to come in quietly." "Thank you, Hutton thank you. That'll be very good of you. And, Hutton " "Yes, miss." The man paused with a large vase of white arums in his hand.
"You must have some money, you know, Julie," said the Duchess, timidly, her upraised face and Paris hat well matched by the gay poinsettias, the delicate eucharis and arums with which the table was now covered. "I shall earn some," said Julie, quietly. "Oh, but, Julie, you can't be bothered with any other tiresome old lady!" "No. I should keep my freedom. But Dr.
We saw with astonishment plantain-leaved heliconias eighteen feet high, the praga palm-tree, and arborescent arums, following the course of the river, even to those subterranean places.
Late that afternoon Paul called at the rectory to leave a wreath of white flowers from Sally and a bunch of arums from himself; and the rector, who saw him pass the study window, opened the door to him. "I've only brought a few flowers from Sally and me," said Paul, omitting the usual greeting. Mr.
I must say the church is lovely, thanks to your arums and camellias, which Macrae brought us just in time.
Most people are acquainted with the little British species, Arum maculatum, which grows in hedge-bottoms, and many, doubtless, have admired the larger kinds grown in hothouses; they can therefore form some idea of a forest of arums.
Never was there myself until yesterday." "Could you find it again?" Mrs. Ranny asked with an enthusiasm hitherto reserved for her poodle. "Sure," said Quin, shoving his hands in his pockets and leaning back with the frankest and best-natured of smiles. "I never saw so many cowslips and buttercups and yellow violets, and these here little arums." "Arums!" repeated Eleanor.
They passed through a covered passage into a little garden overgrown with laurels and gnarled old pepper trees; there was a fountain with gold fish, and green arums were springing up about a broken faun's head set on a pedestal of verd' antico. Some men were standing together in the path, a pretty dark-eyed peasant girl with them.
Oh how exquisitely beautiful! and it is not the primroses only, those gems of flowers, but the natural mosaic of which they form a part; that network of ground-ivy, with its lilac blossoms and the subdued tint of its purplish leaves, those rich mosses, those enamelled wild hyacinths, those spotted arums, and above all those wreaths of ivy linking all those flowers together with chains of leaves more beautiful than blossoms, whose white veins seem swelling amidst the deep green or splendid brown; it is the whole earth that is so beautiful!
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