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"Well, Fate was kind to him to give him another chance. Oh, Daddy, tell him the story the little French woman told at the meeting of the Medical Association." "You should have heard her tell it but I'll do my best. Her eloquence brought us to our feet. It was when she was in Paris just after the American forces arrived. She stopped at the curb one morning to buy violets of an ancient dame.
Thou 'rt wondrous frolic being to die so soon, And passing proud a little color makes thee." And now came the most interesting point, to see what flowers he would place upon his sister's plate. First, a handful of violets. "Faithfulness," thought Dawn, "he is right thus far."
Colour on the fair skin told us we were recognized. 'Princess Ottilia! said my father. 'It is I, my friend, she answered. 'And you? 'With more health than I am in need of, dearest princess. 'And he? 'Harry Richmond! my son, now of age, commencing his tour; and he has not forgotten the farewell bunch of violets. Her eyelids gently lifted, asking me.
And he carefully avoided making any mention of it in a letter to his son. It would only bring them back with a run! How far this silence was due to consideration for their pleasure, how far to regard for his own, he did not pause to consider. That night in his study he had just finished his cigar and was dozing off, when he heard the rustle of a gown, and was conscious of a scent of violets.
It was one of those spring days, full of heat and light, to which the moisture of recent rains imparts a strange softness and melancholy. The air was warm, perfumed by fresh flowers which, on that first day of heat, gave forth their fragrance eagerly, like violets hidden in a muff. Through its long, open windows the room in which they were inhaled all those intoxicating odors.
These I ascended with some difficulty, and, leaving a few scattered beech-trees behind, in full leaf, shortly bid adieu to summer, and entered the regions of spring; for, as I approached that part of the mountain next the summit, the trees, which I found there rooted in the crevices, were but just beginning to unfold their leaves, and every spot of the greensward was covered with cowslips and violets.
"I like to be trusted," said Betty, ruefully, "but it seems to me there are hundreds of girls in college who could do this better than I. Good- bye and look out for the violets, Dorothy." A moment later she opened the door again. "Of course Eleanor doesn't know that you've found out?" "No," said Dorothy. "We've told no one but you and Miss Raymond.
I had counted them again and again; I had stolen across their gentle faces and brought them pleasant dreams of green pastures and of cool water-brooks. I had kissed old Benoni, too, as he lay slumbering there; and in his dreams he seemed to see Israel's King come upon earth, and in his dreams he murmured the promised Messiah's name. "'Ah, is it you, little moonbeam? quoth the violets.
From a small Tuscan straw travelling-toque, the new maid, greatly wondering at such instructions, had extracted an old paste buckle and some violets, leaving it 'not fit to be seen. In spite of having herself taken these precautions, Vida had broken into uncontrollable smiles at the apparition of Mrs. Fox-Moore, asking with pride 'Will I do? I look quite like a Woman of the People, don't I?
There is a smell of violets and flowers in the warm air, and down on the little pond the swan- shaped boats are paddling about with their cargoes of merry children and calico nursery-maids, while the Irish boys look on from the banks and throw pebbles when the policemen are not looking, wishing they had the spare coin necessary to embark for a ten minutes' voyage on the mimic sea.
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