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Between the associations which it excited the images of gayety and splendor, real or feigned a commingling of kid gloves, bouquets, velvet cloaks, and noble names between these glories which so attracted his hungry soul and the present environment of hideous deserts and savage pursuers, what a contrast there was!
Her otherwise good-looking face bore evidence of much care, and she looked distressed, seeming to say, "What shall I do now?" "She certainly needs something," said Palko, as the boys ran toward the cottage. To their greeting, the lady answered in the Czech language. Her kind face brightened as she looked at the boys and their large bouquets. "Are you the nurse of the sick lady?" Palko began.
At the entrance of the long main street of Kinesma, they were obliged to pass under a mock triumphal arch, hung with dead dogs and drowned cats; and from this point the reception assumed an outrageous character. Howls, hootings, and hisses were heard on all sides; bouquets of nettles and vile weeds were flung to them; even wreaths of spoiled fish dropped from the windows.
It was June, and the teachers and pupils were clad in recognition of the special occasion and in the light fabrics fitted to the season. The rooms were adorned with wreaths, garlands, and bouquets. Among the scholars many faces were beautiful, and all were fresh and young.
On other days, however, when she was softened by some thrill of joy or sorrow, her bouquets would assume a tone of silvery grey, very soft and subdued, and delicately perfumed.
Nora observed her with a pair of shrewd brown eyes. "There are two bouquets for you downstairs," she said abruptly. Constance turned round startled, almost hidden by the thick veil of her brown hair. "Who's sent them?" "One comes from Mr. Radowitz a beauty. The other's from Lord Meyrick. Isn't he a jolly boy?" Constance turned back to the dressing-table, disappointed.
Poor Jr. seized it and threw them like a blue rain over the two ladies. "Bravo! Bravo!" A hundred bouquets showered into the carriage, and my friend's silver went out in another shower to meet them. "Addio, la bella Napoli!" came from the singers and the violins, but I cried to them for "La Luna Nova." "Good-bye for a little while good-bye!"
Juicy strawberries and early cherries, red radishes, heads of cabbages, bunches of greens, and long stalks of asparagus were offered for sale, with roses and auriculas, balsams and early pinks, in pots and bouquets, and the ruddy peasant lasses behind the stands, the stately burgher women in their big round hats, the daughters of the master workmen with their long floating locks escaping from under richly embroidered caps, the maidservants with neat little baskets on their round arms, afforded a varied and pleasing scene.
Three or four bouquets had been finished, and the maid went into such raptures over them as somewhat to disgust their worker, who knew that they were not half so well done as they would have been under Betty's direction. However, Mrs. Loveday bore the frame to her Ladyship's room, following Aurelia, who was there received with the same stately caressing manner as before. "Good morning, child.
As John went by the palace the approaches to it were thronged, the band of the Household Cavalry was playing within the rails, and officers in full-dress uniform, members of the diplomatic service with swords and cocked hats, and ladies in gorgeous brocades carrying bouquets of orchids and wearing tiaras of diamonds and large white plumes were filing through the gate toward the throne-room.
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