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"My Lady Jacqueminot" is exquisitely, delicately passionate. "Eros" is frail, rare, ecstatic. "Ghosts" is elfin and dainty as snowflakes. The "Spinning Song" is inexpressibly sad, and such music as women best understand, and therefore ought to make best.
In its exquisite proportions her fine figure was outlined by close white drapery, which made her appear taller than she really was. A single half-open Jacqueminot rose, like the one she had sent to Graydon at their parting over two years since, was fastened on her bosom. Her dark eyes burned with a suppressed excitement.
I think my wife would feel about it just as you do; she's a great person for the country, and if it wasn't for my work on the paper, I guess I sh'd have to live there." Miss Northwick took a mass of heavy-headed jacqueminot roses from the vase where they drooped above the mantel, and wrapping them in a paper from the desk, stiffly offered them to Pinney.
Their white lawn dresses were made with the close-fitting sleeves and the narrow waists of the period, and their elaborately draped overskirts were looped on the left with graduated bows of light blue ottoman ribbon. They wore no hats, and Virginia, who was the shorter of the two, had fastened a Jacqueminot rose in the thick dark braid which was wound in a wreath about her head.
"They are not much more than boys and not perfectly behaved. People often stare when they see a very pretty girl. I am afraid I do it myself. You are very pretty," quite calmly, and as one speaking without prejudice. Robin turned and looked at her, and the colour, which was like a Jacqueminot rose, flooded her face. She was at the flushing age.
We fear that no prima donna looks at her flowers without a thought of how much they have cost, and that the belle estimates her bouquet according to the commercial value of a lily- of-the-valley as compared with that of a Jacqueminot rose, rather than as flowers simply.
I don't believe he's ever given her more than a thought, and he told me last night that he couldn't abide a bouncing woman." "Does Abby bounce?" "You know she does dreadfully. But it wasn't because of Abby that I said what I did." Something quivered softly between them, and a petal from the Jacqueminot rose in Virginia's hair fluttered like a crimson moth out into the twilight.
When the sojourner in this land of flowers sees, opening on all sides of this inhospitable-looking plant, rich cream-colored cups, the size of a Jacqueminot bud, and of a rare, satiny sheen, she cannot resist the desire to fill a low dish with them for her table. She may as well have spared herself the trouble.
As she was leaving, Annie gave into her hands a pasteboard box, just brought to the house by a messenger boy. The box was full of Jacqueminot roses, to the stems of which a note from Corthell was tied. He wrote but a single line: "So it should have been 'good-by' after all." She can wear them to her dance to-night," she said.
And then he gave a shout and dug into the bottom of the box for something else that had been the kitten's resting-place a crushed but red, red, fragrant, glorious, promising Jacqueminot rose. There are few Caliphesses. Women are Scheherazades by birth, predilection, instinct, and arrangement of the vocal cords.
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