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It was particularly becoming to Laura's bella-donna lily complexion, rich brown curls, and classical features, and her brother exclaimed: 'Laura is exactly like Apollo playing the lyre, outside mamma's old manuscript book of music. 'Has not Amy made beautiful wreaths? said Laura. 'She stripped the tree, and Guy had to fetch the ladder, to gather the sprays on the top of the wall.
I'm sure that the bella-donna lily, cold hard painted thing, was a mistake; she must have been something much sweeter. What do you think of a honeysuckle? That's bright red and white, and its leaves come out when nothing else does. 'But it trails about, and doesn't stand alone. 'It has got a good stout hard stem, that can make a bush of its own when it hasn't anything to twine upon.
'Bella-donna lily, working bee, menura 'Hold hard! called Lance; 'is a menura fish, flesh, or fowl? 'Fowl: the lyre-tailed pheasant, that makes a shelter for its nest with its own tail. 'Decided liar tale, muttered Edgar. 'Go on, Bobbie, Felix encouraged her. The pheasant suits both the twins as well as the bella-donna. Any more? 'Perhaps the leading stag of the herd.