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"Now for some of our best blood-oranges!" she said; "old Jocunda says they put her in mind of pomegranates. And here are some of these little ones, see here, grandmamma!" she exclaimed, as she turned and held up a branch just broken, where five small golden balls grew together with a pearly spray of white buds just beyond them.
The berry will then face the sun for days, and, if the weather is not too wet, instead of softening will turn dark and grow rich. Out of its crabbedness and spitefulness come the finest, choicest flavors. It is an astonishing berry. It lays hold of the taste in a way that the aristocratic berries, like the Jocunda or the Triumph, cannot approximate to.
"So, so," she said to Agnes, when she had closed the gate after Elsie, "you never come empty-handed. What lovely oranges! worth double any that one can buy of anybody else but your grandmother." "Yes, and these flowers I brought to dress the altar." "Ah, yes! Saint Agnes has given you a particular grace for that," said Jocunda.
And I'm Bat Masquerier, he went on. He dropped his chin in his fists and scowled straight in front of him.... 'I made the Silhouettes I made the Trefoil and the Jocunda. I made 'Dal Benzaguen. Here Ollyett sat straight up, for in common with the youth of that year he worshipped Miss Vidal Benzaguen of the Trefoil immensely and unreservedly.
"Oh, Father Francesco and she got it up between them, and nothing will do but I must go, too." "Well, now, after all, my dear," said Jocunda, "do you know, I made a pilgrimage once, and it isn't so bad. One gets a good deal by it, first and last.
I wished the rocks, and the hanging-woods, and the glens, and the water-falls, and the arbutus, and the myrtles, and the upper and lower lakes, and the islands, and Mucruss, and Mucruss Abbey, and the purple mountain, and the eagle's nest, and the Grand Turk, and the lights and the shades, and the echoes, and, above all, the Lady Jocunda, fairly at the devil.
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