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The next morning, Lillie, all fresh in a ravishing toilet, with field-daisies in her hair, was in a condition to laugh gently at John for his emotion of yesterday. She triumphed softly, not too obviously, in her power. He couldn't do without her, do what she might, that was plain. "Now, John," she said, "don't you think we poor women are judged rather hardly?
She was killingly dressed in the rural-simplicity style. All her robes and sashes were of purest white; and a knot of field-daisies and grasses, with French dew-drops on them, twinkled in an infinitesimal bonnet on her little head, and her hair was all créped into a filmy golden aureole round her face.
The "white muslin" was composed almost entirely of Valenciennes lace; the blue ribbons were embroidered with field-daisies; the air of delicate elaborateness about the whole was something which her innocent mind could not have believed possible in orthodox white and blue. "I don't think I should call it exactly simple," she said. "My love, what a quantity of lace!"
A ship was sighted to-day in the far distance. Sunday, December 16. Rebekah is most good in bringing us bunches of pink roses. We have also on the table a bouquet of field-daisies which we were so pleased to find growing here. There are scarcely any wild flowers, but there is a yellow one which much resembles a hollyhock. The people think it very poisonous and never picked it.
Now it was a big bunch of field-daisies or golden buttercups, now a green glory of spicy ferns, now a cluster of old-fashioned garden flowers. "They keep life in me," Jessamine told him. They were great friends by this time. True, she knew little about him but she felt instinctively that he was manly and kind-hearted. One day when he came Jessamine met him almost gleefully. "No, nothing today.
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