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Her eyelids quivered, her hand shook; the bloom was succeeded by a pallor. With feverish haste her quick eyes flew over the paper. She turned the page and gasped slightly for breath. She raised her head, and her big, dark eyes were full of tears, and a radiant, tender smile parted her lips. "Thank God!" she said; "oh, this is wonderful! Oh, thank God!"
Working overtime but her luck's turned today. BLOOM: Not I! ZOE: You both in black. Has little mousey any tickles tonight? ZOE: How's the nuts? BLOOM: Off side. Curiously they are on the right. Heavier, I suppose. One in a million my tailor, Mesias, says. BLOOM: Not likely. ZOE: I feel it. BLOOM: A talisman. Heirloom. ZOE: For Zoe? For keeps? For being so nice, eh? He smiles uneasily.
I was, after the fashion of humanity, in love with my name, and, as young, uneducated people commonly do, wrote it down everywhere. Once I had carved it very handsomely and accurately on the smooth bark of a linden-tree of moderate age. The following autumn, when my affection for Annette was in its fullest bloom, I took the trouble to cut hers above it.
Even in the twilight, she could see that the microfila roses by the front porch were still blooming they had been in bloom when she went away and the Cherokee rose on the summer-house was starred with cream-white blossoms. From the windows of the old sitting-room, a light was shining and Anne hastened toward the latticed side-porch which opened into the room.
It was a beautiful day, with all the freshness and fragrance of early morning in summer, when the white stone houses of Paris seem to blush in the sunrise; and as I walked up the Champs Elysées on my way back to the hotel, I met under the chestnut trees, which were then in bloom, a little company of young girls returning to school after their first communion. How sweet they looked!
So here we are at Winchester; and I don't mind all the Roderick Abbotts in the universe, now that I have seen the Royal Garden Inn, its pretty coffee-room opening into the old-fashioned garden, with its borders of clove pinks, its aviaries, and its blossoming horse-chestnuts, great towering masses of pink bloom! Aunt Celia has driven to St. Cross Hospital with Mrs.
Writing in the Standard of April 8, 1912, a well-known clergyman assured us that "when a woman enters the political arena, the bloom is brushed from the peach, never to be restored."
"These are my human rosebuds!" said Sah-luma softly and gayly, as holding the dazzled Theos by the arm he escorted him past these radiant and exquisite forms "They bloom, and fade, and die, like the flowers thrown by the populace, proud and happy to feel that their perishable loveliness has, even, for a brief while, been made more lasting by contact with my deathless poet-fame!
'Mong the blossoms white and red Look up, look up. I flutter now On this flush pomegranate bough. See me! 'tis this silvery bill Ever cures the good man's ill. Shed not tear! oh shed not tear! The flower will bloom another year. Adieu! Adieu! I fly, adieu! I vanish in the heaven's blue Adieu! Adieu!"
I'd forgotten to take care of it and Bele he is good, you know, but stupid had been tending it. Poor Rosebush! "It was much too big for its jar. Its roots were all cramped and its top all cut back so it couldn't bloom you mustn't prune some roses too much, you know I've just been thinking, that you're rather like my rosebush. You're Dulcie, aren't you? I think I know exactly what you need.
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