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James's, and the conservatory, in which she took the keenest delight, was a wonderful affair a vast bubble-like structure of green panes, whence, winter and summer, came a multitude of flowers for the house violets, lilies of the valley, jonquils, hyacinths, tulips, and her own loved roses. But the interior of the house was, in parts, less satisfactory.
I suppose it may be so when we enter a future life. While here, we think we do not want to go elsewhere, even to a better land; but when we reach that shore, we shall probably acknowledge it to be a lucky change. Ben drew me carefully down the garden-path. I inhaled the breath of the tulips and hyacinths, as we passed them.
Then there are the beaux, the Adonises and Hyacinths, as you must be careful to call them, undeterred by the eighteen inches or so of nose that some of them carry on their faces. Do your praises halt? 'Tis envy, 'tis treason! Away with you, Philoxenus that you are, to Syracusan quarries! Let them be orators, let them be philosophers, if they will: what matter for a solecism here and there?
Arnot's residence, he sat down for a while, and gave himself up to a very bitter revery. There, in the bright spring sunshine, was the beautiful villa which might have been a second home to him. The gardener was at work among the shrubbery, and the sweet breath of crocuses and hyacinths was floated to him on the morning breeze.
A bowl of stained glass on the table was filled with musk roses, the latest of the year; and several hyacinths in full bloom added their almost overpowering scent to the aromatic odours of the burning incense.
Perhaps he was thinking of Lionel; perhaps he was thinking of the confession she had made in crossing the common; at all events, he did not address her; and when she stooped to gather some hyacinths and anemones he merely waited for her. But as they drew near to the farther end of the coppice the path became clearer, and now he walked by her side. "What is?"
By this time he had walked the length of fashionable Harcourt Avenue; he had reached the corner house, their house. The carriage gates were pushed back; there were fresh marks of wheels on the drive. And then he faced the big white-painted house, with its wide-open windows, its tulle curtains floating outwards, its blue jars of hyacinths on the broad sills.
It was covered with rich, soft grass and June flowers, mountain violets and patches of forget-me-nots, and wild asters and hyacinths, and in the centre of it was a fifty-foot spatter of soft mud which Thor visited frequently when his feet became rock-sore.
The fault has not been so much in yourselves, as in those whose duty it was to have prepared you for the trials and temptations, that you had little chance of passing through the world without encountering. Now, let me try if this wand cannot confer more lasting happiness than the roses and hyacinths of my sister." So saying, she waved it gently over their heads.
You shouldn't use long words, Madge. Come along down. But this mention of flowers put a new idea into the head of Captain Frank King. That very morning he had passed a window where he had seen all sorts of beautiful blossoms, many of them lying in cotton wool pink and white camellias, white hyacinths, scarlet geraniums, lilies of the valley, and what not.
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