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I afterwards found that the offspring from the union of two plants belonging to the same forms presented a close and curious analogy with hybrids from the union of two distinct species. In the autumn of 1864 I finished a long paper on 'Climbing Plants, and sent it to the Linnean Society.
On a dreary autumn evening one's thoughts often take a melancholy turn, even though one is indoors, sitting before a pleasant fire, and hearing but faintly the sighing of the wind and the sound of the rain beating against the window.
But the summer passed away, and the forest put on the sere and sombre robes of autumn, and yet no visible change none at least more favorable to the wishes of William Hinkley took place in the character and conduct of the maiden. Her mind, on the contrary, seemed to take something of its hue from the cold sad tones of the forest.
In the autumn of 1841, Cobden and Bright made that solemn compact which was the beginning of an affectionate and noble friendship that lasted without a cloud or a jar until Cobden's death. "On the day when Mr. Cobden called upon me," said Bright, "I was in the depths of grief, I might almost say of despair; for the light and sunshine of my house had been extinguished.
It was an extraordinary thanksgiving festival celebrated in honour of the Capitoline Jupiter and the gods dwelling along with him, ordinarily in pursuance of a vow made by the general before battle, and therefore usually observed on the return home of the burgess-force in autumn.
Come, my red rose, let me set you among the flowers. What could she do but harbour up her thoughts? He took her afield, where flowers made the earth still a singing-place, and gathered of these to deck her bosom and hair. Of the harebells he made knots, the ground-colour of her eyes; but autumn loves the yellow, so she was stuck with gold like a princess.
Thackeray announced to me by letter in the early autumn of 1852 that he had determined to visit America, and would sail for Boston by the Canada on the 30th of October. All the necessary arrangements for his lecturing tour had been made without troubling him with any of the details.
"I should have suggested it earlier, only I knew that you could not finish The Gates away from your library." She spoke in a curiously listless way. "Could you be ready to go on Thursday, Yvonne?" "Yes, quite easily." "I can work upon my notes for the autumn book in Devon better than in London." "But," began Yvonne, and stopped, staring unseeingly at the roses in the bowl upon the table.
For my own part, now that his horrible danger is not face to face with us, it seems almost impossible to believe in it. Even my own terrible experiences in Castle Dracula seem like a long forgotten dream. Here in the crisp autumn air in the bright sunlight. Alas! How can I disbelieve! In the midst of my thought my eye fell on the red scar on my poor darling's white forehead.
By and by she had the command of a little money; and when in the late autumn there came a time of scarcity and disease, she went about among the poor like a disciple of Sir Gibbie.
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