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Breede, a member of one of the very oldest families in Omaha, he learned, terrified him exceedingly. She was an advanced dresser he had to admit that but she was no longer beautiful. She was a plucked rose that had been too long kept; the petals were rusting, crumpling at the edges. He wondered if Breede had ever wished to be wrecked on a desert island with her.
The petals of this beautiful and fragrant shrub, as well as of the Oenothera, tree primrose, and others, continue expanded but a few hours, falling off about noon, or soon after, in hot weather. And the flowers of the Hibiscus trionum are said to continue but a single hour.
It was one of the vagrant late gladdeners of the earth that his eye chanced to light upon. It held him, somehow. It was wide open so wide that there was a white spot in its yellow center and close above it drooped, a beech-tree's branch, so close that one long green leaf hung just above the petals. And upon this green leaf the dew was gathering. The man looked at the flower.
He felt rich in life and happy. Drawing farther off, there was a patch of lights at Bulwell like myriad petals shaken to the ground from the shed stars; and beyond was the red glare of the furnaces, playing like hot breath on the clouds. He had to walk two and more miles from Keston home, up two long hills, down two short hills.
A woman with skin like the petals of the lotus and hair like corn sat in the sacred sarcophagus and braided her hair, gazing the while toward the bright sun. The intake of many breaths produced a sound. Kathlyn turned instantly toward this sound, for a moment expecting the return of the lion.
"I suppose," said Constance, stencilling away at bright pink petals, "it's our lot. But it's very beastly." "What's our lot?" asked her sister. "Slavery! Downtroddenness! When I think of it I feel all over boot marks men's boots. We hide it bravely, but so it is. Damn! I've splashed." Miss Miniver's manner became impressive.
Thus, for example, the single flower is transformed into a double one when, instead of stamens, petals are developed, which are either exactly like the other petals of the corolla in form, and color or else still bear visible signs of their origin.
"It is all over now," she said to herself sadly. "It is not every woman who in all her lifetime can win so great a love as I have lost." The tranquil sensuous life went on. There were hours in it which her child could not fill long hours, in which that marvellous blossom folded its petals, slumbering sweetly through the summer noontide, and was no better company than a rose-bud.
Will you reenter the wood and call them to return? The sun is fast sinking, and darkness will be upon us." He looked from her to me, with his brows drawn downwards and his lips pressed together. Stooping, he took up the fallen flowers and deliberately tore them to pieces, until the pink petals were all scattered upon the sand.
The flowers have white petals, tinted with rose, and the centre is a deep violet. Their weight is between two and three pounds. Wherever we camped we lit immense fires of brushwood, and generally slept peacefully, but with loaded rifle at arm's length. A portion of land which I rode over while in that district must have been just a thin crust covering a mighty cave.
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