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Goode and Abby a loud, handsome girl, with a coarsened complexion and a "sporting" manner received their guests and waved them on to a dancing platform which had been raised between a rose-crowned summer-house and the old brick wall at the foot of the garden.
The image of Madeleine, ever present to Maurice, drew around him a protecting circle which nothing vile could enter, and, wherever his own eyes turned, it seemed to him that her heavenly eyes followed. Could he profane their holy gaze by fixing his upon scenes of captivating degradation and rose-crowned vice?
The queen mother rises with the prince to receive the homage of humanity. The boy, old beyond his years, gravely raises his right hand to bless his people, the other still clinging, with infantile grace, to the dress of his mother. Lovely, rose-crowned angels hold court on either side, bearing lighted tapers in jars of roses.
He was to her of all living men most desirable, so that she must win him and hold him, must see and know. In a few steps, light as those of the little, rose-crowned dancer of long ago, she followed him across the shining floor. There was a point of north in the wind, adding exhilaration to the firm sunshine as ice to rare wine. The scent of narcissus, magnolia, and lemon blossom was everywhere.
Cool, but soft, sunny and bright in short, perfect; only the sky is so pale. Last night the sunset was a vision of loveliness, a sort of Pompadour paradise; the sky seemed full of rose-crowned amorini, and the moon wore a rose-coloured veil of bright pink cloud, all so light, so airy, so brilliant, and so fleeting, that it was a kind of intoxication.
Only the pen of some mirth-loving, rose-crowned Greek bard could adequately describe the dazzling, wild beauty and fantastic grace of those whirling fairy forms, that now inspired to a bacchante-like ardor, urged one another to fresh speed with brief soft cries of musical rapture!
The age was free, and in that London which was dear to the hearts of the Virginians ladies of damaged reputation were not so unusual a feature of fashionable entertainments as to receive any especial notice. But Williamsburgh was not London, and the dancer yonder, who held her rose-crowned head so high, was no lady of fashion.
Rose-crowned Fruit Pigeon PTILOPUS EWINGI. Purple-crowned Fruit Pigeon PTILOPUS SUPERBUS. Purple-breasted Fruit Pigeon MEGALOPREPIA MAGNIFICA. Allied Fruit Pigeon MEGALOPREPIA ASSIMILIS. Nutmeg Pigeon MYRISTICIVORA SPILORRHOA. White-headed Fruit Pigeon COLUMBA LEUCOMELA. Pheasant-tailed Pigeon MACROPYGIA PHASIANELLA. Barred-shouldered Dove GEOPELIA HUMERALIS. Ground Dove GEOPELIA TRANQUILA. Little Dove GEOPELIA CUNEATA. Little Green Pigeon CHALCOPHAPS CHRYSOCHLORA.
And to be loved by all the children is a great thing; I think of course I cannot be quite sure but I think it is an exceptional thing for a clergyman!" With rose-crowned June, the rose-window in the church of St. Rest was filled in and completed.
Continuing our walk, we pass under the rose-crowned aqueduct, and strike into the green avenue that darkens beyond; listening to the distant water bubbling up from the deepest recesses, and to the fitful whistle of blackbird and thrush, as they flit athwart the moss-grown gravel, and perch momentarily on the heads of mutilated termini and statues; whilst the clipt trees vibrate under the wings of others extricating themselves on a piratical cruise against a whole flotilla of butterflies, which is rising and falling over the sunny parterres beyond.
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