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On and about the semicircular terrace immediately around the house were planted crape-myrtle, clove trees and sago-palms: some yet remain to indicate what an Eden-like retreat was this garden of spices and bloom half a century ago.
His face gave me a start, and then I remembered that I had seen him only the day before, resplendent, coming out of church. He was the Baron de Carondelet. There was a sentry standing under a crape-myrtle where the Royal Road ran through the gateway. Behind him was a diminutive five-sided brick fort with a dozen little cannon on top of it.
This space was entirely devoted to flowers: on each side was a grove of orange trees, and in the lower garden were the fig, India-rubber and date-palm, the golden date of Africa. Of trees there were the camphor tree, coffee, Portuguese laurel, "tree of Paradise," crape-myrtle, guava, lime, orange, citron, pomegranate, sago-palm and many others whose home is in the tropics.
"Anybody might, but few do play it as I thought I heard it played last night. Who's the player, Miss Smith?" "I haven't the slightest idea. Alicia thinks it's a spirit that lives in the crape-myrtle trees." I was beginning to be aweary of The Author's shrewd eyes and persistent questioning, and I was heartily glad when he had to go back to his work.
"I'll come back for the plate and spoon, after a while," she said, hurrying off. But at the gate, beside the thick crape-myrtle bushes, she paused and looked back. Somehow she wanted to see Maria Champneys's boy eating that ice-cream and cake.
"What is the difficulty?" asked the priest, stopping in the angle of the path, where it turned toward the front of the house. She averted her face, and began picking the thin scales of bark from a crape-myrtle. "Madame Thompson and her husband were at our house this morning. He had told Monsieur Thompson all about it. They were very kind to me at first, but they tried " She was weeping.
"I can't look out upon the June flowers, you know, and though the pink crape-myrtle at my window is in full bloom I cannot see it." Following her gesture, Carraway glanced out into the little yard; no myrtle was there, but he remembered vaguely that he had seen one in blossom at the Hall. "You keep flowers about you, though," he said, alluding to the scattered vases of June roses.
The streets were as green as in early spring: the flowers were fewer, but the air was heavy with the fragrance of crape-myrtle and orange. It was hot in the morning, but an early breeze from the ocean soon came in, blowing with refreshing coolness all day long. It was even pleasanter than in spring and winter, the air clearer and more bracing, and annoying insects had disappeared. St.
'Still singing where the weeping willow waves'? he's on the myrtle; the myrtle, Josephine, and the crape-myrtle at that! widowhood unwidowed! Now he's on the fence but he'll not stay there, and you mustn't either!" The suitor smiled at his own ludicrousness, yet for all that looked beseechingly in earnest. He stood still again, continuing to hold her hand.
"What is the difficulty?" asked the priest, stopping in the angle of the path, where it turned toward the front of the house. She averted her face, and began picking the thin scales of bark from a crape-myrtle. "Madame Thompson and her husband were at our house this morning. He had told Monsieur Thompson all about it. They were very kind to me at first, but they tried" She was weeping.
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