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As he bent his head toward the calla stalks, he happened to disturb a big black snake, which lay sleeping under them. Grayskin had heard Karr speak of the poisonous adders that were to be found in the forest. So, when the snake raised its head, shot out its tongue and hissed at him, he thought he had encountered an awfully dangerous reptile.

But, whatever you may think of her, don't," and here she paused a little over the proper expressing of Rose's misdeed, "don't call her a calla lily," she found. And she finished, "Especially not before her mother, who is not so blind to your meaning as we must hope that Jack is." Poor Rose looked now like the naughty child after a deserved chastisement.

Rayne sat within, talking with Rhoda in the candlelight. Opposite me, as I looked in at the open door, hung two Madonnas, the Sistine and the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception. In front of each stood a tall flower-stand carved to imitate the leaves and blossoms of the calla lily. These black flowers held great bunches of the Annunciation lily, sacred to the Virgin through all the ages. Mrs.

There will be enough for all, and I've nothing else to give to people who have made me as happy as cousin Sophie and you," answered Ruth, half drowning her great calla as she spoke with grateful warmth. "You must make her happy by accepting the invitation to go home with her which I heard given last night. A peep at the world would do you good, and be a pleasant change, I think."

"And the food he reminds me of," finished Eddy, "is baked beans." "Good," said Rose. "Now, Imogen. What flower is she like? Jack, you will tell us." Jack looked suddenly like the nervous dog, and Rose handsomely started the portrait with, "Calla lily." "That's it," Eddy agreed.

Seabrook smiled, but there was a sad yearning in her soft eyes as they rested upon her helpless child. "I hardly think it would do. I am afraid it could not be arranged," she doubtfully replied. "Indeed it could, and very easily. I have a lovely idea!" said Katherine, eagerly. "Let her take the Calla Lily no one has chosen that because the flowers are too stiff to trim a dress gracefully.

Prue liked the kitchen because of the plants. It was very funny to see such tiny sweet alyssum, such dwarfs of geranium, such a little bit of heliotrope, and only one calla among those small leaves. "Just wait till you go to California with us, Deborah," she remarked this afternoon. "I'll show you flowers." "I'm too old to travel, Miss Prue." "No, you are not. I shall take you when I go.

"If a girl ain't a fast one that gets as good as engaged to half the young men in the county, then I'd like to know who is, that's all?" Then, as Abel called sharply to his fox-hound puppy and flung himself from the room, she turned away and went to sprinkle her calla lilies. There was an agony in her breast, though she would have bitten out her tongue sooner than have confessed it.

Hetty came in upon them as if a wind had blown her. "Law me!" said Caroline, looking up. "Anything happened?" "No," said Hetty, "nothin' 's happened. I don't know as 't ever will." She sat down and talked recklessly about nothing. A calla bud, yesterday a roll of white, had opened, and the sun lay in its heart. Hetty set her lips grimly, and refused to look at it.

But if we change a little part of speech and write the cripple, and proceed to think of the cripple in a village, or the dwarf, or the drunken man or the maniac, we instantly perceive how their presence must greatly colour the limited society in which they exist; how they must either amuse or disgust, arouse sympathy or create fear, as the case may be, and although a calla lily and a red-blooming cactus, a parrot or Persian kitten, are scarcely regarded as curiosities or rarities in the city, they may easily come to be regarded as such in the village.