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If you have a mind to see your son a judge in another month, we will tell you how you must set to work " "Step this way, sir, and you will see my pelargoniums, an enchanting sight while they are in flower " Then he added to Mme. Camusot, "Why did you speak of these matters while your cousin was present." "All depends upon him," riposted Mme. Camusot.
At the end of the greenhouse the judge had set up a grandstand, an amphitheatre of benches to hold some five or six thousand pelargoniums in pots a splendid and famous show. People came to see his geraniums in flower, not only from the neighborhood, but even from the departments round about.
The shrubbery around was interlaced with wild roses; while blue lupins and scarlet pelargoniums sparkled over the glade, under the sheltering protection of the trees. By the edge of the shrubbery lay a bouquet, that had evidently been put together with some care! Dismounting, I took it up. My fingers trembled as I examined it: for even in this slight object I read indications of design.
If you have a mind to see your son a judge in another month, we will tell you how you must set to work " "Step this way, sir, and you will see my pelargoniums, an enchanting sight while they are in flower " Then he added to Mme. Camusot, "Why did you speak of these matters while your cousin was present." "All depends upon him," riposted Mme. Camusot.
Whiffs of indistinct conversation, and now and then laughter, came in from the inn parlor through the pelargoniums in the open window. Hoopdriver felt it must all be in the same strain, at her expense and his. He answered her abstractedly. She was tired, she said, and presently went to her room. Mr. Hoopdriver, in his courtly way, opened the door for her and bowed her out.
It is little I can do in this matter; yet, believing that the culture of these plants will be as general shortly as the culture of pelargoniums under glass and firmly convinced that he who hastens that day is a real benefactor to his kind I am most anxious to do what lies in my power. Considering the means by which this end may be won, it appears necessary above all to avoid boring the student.
Outside the thunder rain fell, straight as ramrods, in big globular drops, which spattered upon the gray quarries and splashed on the pink and lilac, lemon-yellow, scarlet and orange of the pot plants, hydrangeas, pelargoniums, and early-flowering chrysanthemums, set, three deep, along the base of the house wall, the whole length of the terrace front. The atmosphere was thick.
He was perspiring freely, and did not look entirely satisfied. The next scene which was conjured up on the stage was a forest. It was wonderfully fine, with pelargoniums blooming on the ground, and a spring which was flowing out of something green. "That is a covered beer-barrel!" said Pelle, and now Lasse too could see the tap, but it was wonderfully natural.
Red tulips would bloom between the boulders; exquisite glowing pelargoniums and snow-white or pale-blue iris would clothe the baked earth. The ice-plant would no longer be the only green thing growing in the crannies of the rock.
I could tell you beforehand exactly what will happen, almost the very words people will say how your jardinières will be admired, and how the conversation will glance off from your ferns and pelargoniums to Lady Ellangowan's orchids, and then drift back to your old china; after which the ladies will begin to talk about dress, and the wickedness of giving seven guineas for a summer bonnet, as Mrs Jones, or Green, or Robinson has just done; from which their talk will glide insensibly to the iniquities of modern servants; and when those have been discussed exhaustively, one of the younger ladies will tell you the plot of the last novel she has had from Mudie's, with an infinite number of you knows and you sees, and then perhaps Captain Winstanley he is coming, I suppose will sing a French song, of which the company will understand about four words in every verse, and then you will show Mrs.
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