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Marbles, balustrades, vast staircases, columns, statues, groups, bas-reliefs, vases, and pictures were scattered here and there in rich profusion, besides cascades and fountains innumerable. The large salon, octagonal in shape, had a high, vaulted ceiling, and its flooring of mosaic looked like a rich carpet embellished with birds, butterflies, arabesques, fruits, and flowers.
There wuz hundreds of figgers from the animal and vegetable kingdom, and Mythology cupids, nymphs, birds, and butterflies disportin' themselves in the most graceful way, and such beautiful female figgers! Venuses as beautiful as dreams, and over all, and through all, wuz a-trailin' the rich clusters of the vine.
"I am sorry not to be of some service to you." "I can readily believe that, your excellency," not to be outdone in the matter of duplicity. "I thank you for your time." "I hadn't the least idea that you were in the service; butterflies and diplomacy!" with a hearty laugh. "It is only temporary." "Your Alpine Butterflies compares favorably with The Life of the Bee."
At the foot of the hill the road skirted a mantled pond, choked with broad green leaves and the half-submerged trunks of fallen trees. Upon these logs, basking in the sunlight, lay small tortoises by the score. A snake glided across the road in front of the horses, and from a bit of muddy ground rose a cloud of yellow butterflies.
Eglantine's usual morning costume was a blue satin neck-cloth embroidered with butterflies and ornamented with a brandy-ball brooch, a light shawl waistcoat, and a rhubarb-coloured coat of the sort which, I believe, are called Taglionis, and which have no waist-buttons, and made a pretence, as it were, to have no waists, but are in reality adopted by the fat in order to give them a waist.
She's older than the Snoodle!" cried the First and Second Gunki. And at that the whole Garden went wild over her just as the butterflies had done.
"Are you at all interested in that line?" "Indeed, yes," she assured him, "although I doubt very much if my interest is anything like as scientific as yours. I fancy I am more interested in them because of their wonderful beauty, than for any more particular reason. And what in all the world, señor, is so beautiful as the butterflies of the tropics?
On his person he wore a light yellow, archery-sleeved jacket, ornamented with rampant dragons, and lined with fur from the ribs of the silver fox; and was clasped with a dark sash, embroidered with different-coloured butterflies and birds.
There was a handkerchief over his mouth and his hands and feet were securely bound. His eyes were open. The hunter of butterflies rubbed his released wrists and ankles, tried his collar, coughed, and dropped his legs to the floor. "I am getting old," he cried in self-communion; "near-sighted and old. I've worn spectacles so long in jest that now I must wear them in earnest."
The snow was deep; a great deal had fallen even at the end of March, but it melted quickly, as though by magic, and the spring floods passed in a tumultuous rush, so that by the beginning of April the starlings were already noisy, and yellow butterflies were flying in the garden. It was exquisite weather.
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