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In a garden flooded with sunshine and balmy with the fragrance of mignonette and vervain, where broad sunflowers erect their black discs fringed with gold, two brothers with fan-shaped beards, their brass-mounted spectacles astride on their flat noses, and arrayed in green gardening aprons, are plying enormous watering-cans; while, in the green and cool half-twilight under the shadowy trees, big, rubicund brothers walk up and down, reading their red-edged breviaries in black leather bindings.
But the man had no notion how to wait; nature herself was too slow for him. In April, after a had planted in the terra-cotta pots outside his window seedling plants of mignonette and convolvulus, he would go and give them a little pull by their leaves to make them grow faster. In dealing with such a strange individual there was nothing for it but prompt obedience. I therefore rushed after him.
She was sure to choose the mignonette a fair, well-bred, graceful plant like herself. Others choose their camellias and their hyacinths; Jeanne must have something more refined. She put down her money, caught up the bunch, looked at it for a moment, and held it close to her breast as a mother might hold her child, while all its golden locks drooped over her arm.
Her eyes gleamed in the moonlight, a faint smile curved her pretty mouth. "If I am, it will need someone braver than you are to tame me!" she said "A trickster is always a coward!" With an angry exclamation he flung away the end of his cigar, it fell into a harmless bed of mignonette and seared the sweet blossom, burning redly in the green like a wicked eye.
A slim slip of a girl, selling thyme and mignonette out of a reed basket, offered to show Vasari the birthplace of Raphael; and a brown-cheeked, barefoot boy, selling roses on which the dew yet lingered, volunteered a like service for me, three hundred years later. The house is one of a long row of low stone structures, with the red-tile roof everywhere to be seen.
A little uneasy I seated myself on the low couch covered with crepe de Chine and stretched myself full length, and was at once bathed in a delicious odor of mignonette. I opened my mouth in order to breathe it in, for my mind had already become stupefied and forgetful of the past and was a prey, in the first stages of asphyxia, to the enchanting intoxication of a destroying and magic opium.
"What city?" "Philadelphia." "Mother's jest that way. She has a garden of roses. And the mignonette " But he broke off suddenly, and sat once more staring before him. "But not a damned thing," he added, with poetic pensiveness, "would grow in that gulch." "Why did you stay there so long?" asked Kate, after a little pause in which she managed to regain her waning courage. "Bad luck.
Trying to find the little we know amongst the lot that we feel is a veritable search for mignonette seeds in sand." The Tenor continued silent and thoughtful for a time. "But do you never pray, dear Boy?" he said at last. The Boy shook his head. "Did you never?" "Oh, yes," more cheerfully. "I used to believe in all the bogies at one time."
Urging himself on with his memories, forcing himself to picture Vera, he strode rapidly towards the garden. There was no mist by then along the road or in the garden, and the bright moon looked down from the sky as though it had just been washed; only the eastern sky was dark and misty. . . . Ognev remembers his cautious steps, the dark windows, the heavy scent of heliotrope and mignonette.
Did you ever see anything as lovely as that basket of lilies of the valley and mignonette? They look like they're nodding and peeping at you, and these little vases of them in between the candlesticks are just to fill in, she says. She brought her candle-shades because she didn't think you had any to go with lilies of the valley and mignonette.
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