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Beyond the green slope of corn, a thin, soft vapour hung on the distant woods, and hid the hills. The pale young leaves of the aspen rustled faintly, not yet with their full sound; the sprays of the horse-chestnut, drooping with the late frosts, could not yet keep out the sunshine with their broad green. A white spot on the footpath yonder was where the bloom had fallen from a blackthorn bush.
It was here that I first met, growing on the scrubby hills, a species of Bauhinia, either shrubby or a small shady tree, with spreading branches; the pods are flat, of a blunt form, almost one inch in breadth, and from three to four inches long. The Bricklow seems to prevent the growth of almost all other vegetation, with the exception of a small shrub, with linear lanceolate aromatic leaves.
As I stood before the glass and she tried various positions for some geranium leaves, I felt that would not do either. Any dressing of my head would commonise the whole thing.
"I'm not so shore. But then I can't savvy her. Lord knows I hope so, too. If she doesn't if she goes back East an' leaves him here I reckon my case " "Hush! I know she's out here to take him back. Let's go downstairs now." "Aw, wait Flo," he begged. "What's your hurry?... Come-give me " "There! That's all you get, birthday or no birthday," replied Flo, gayly.
Oh, but they fell like leaves in the gardens, there the paths and shrubbery were littered with them, dead, dying, gasping, crawling about, like singed flies under a lamp. We had them beaten, too, if it hadn't been for their General von Kirchbach. He stood in the garden he'd been hit, too and bawled for the artillery. Then they came at us again in three divisions.
Without some excess or deficiency of absorption and elaboration in the growth of grain or plants something essentially disturbing their normal and harmonious processes of development no mycological forms would appear on their stems or roots, nor would they develop themselves on their fading leaves or congested and decaying fruit.
The trunk of this tree, said the traveller, rose almost of equal thickness to the height of twenty feet, when it divided into a great number of short, thick branches, that separated from the main stem like the branches of a candelabrum, and upon the end of each of these was a thick tuft of the stiff, sword-shaped leaves the same as I have above described.
On the wreck of the year they flourished, sucked strange life from rotten stick and hollow tree, opened gills on lofty branch and bough, shone in the green grass rings of the meadows, thrust cup and cowl from the concourse of the dead leaves in ditches, clustered like the uprising roof-trees of a fairy village in dingle and in dene.
I wonder I did not see it, but I was thinking at the time that we had best tie up for an hour or two so as to pass the next village, which is a large one, after dark.” “It was almost hidden among those leaves,” Stephen said, “and had it not moved I should not have noticed it.” “I think you blinded it, señor,” Hurka said. “I saw it rise to spring, and snatched at my rifle just as you fired.
Wrote two leaves this morning, and gave the day after breakfast to my visitor, who is a country gentleman of the best description; knows the world, having been a good deal attached both to the turf and the field; is extremely good-humoured, and a good deal of a local antiquary.
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