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She should have been my queen of Violets: I would have done it last year if that unlucky baby had not come in the way. 'And now she does not need patronage, said Jane. 'No; and now Theodora has found her out for herself a better thing, said Mrs. Finch. 'You look all the better for it! I never saw you look so bright or so handsome, Theodora! You are a happy girl! and there was a sigh.
She felt as though the assembled fashionable world was staring at her, but presently gathered courage enough to gaze at the costumes of the women and the faces of the men. Howard, with a sang froid of which she felt a little proud, ordered a meal for which he eventually paid a fraction over eight dollars. What would Aunt Mary have said to such extravagance? He produced a large bunch of violets.
"Gentlemen," said Triplet, "does it never occur to you that the fine arts are tender violets, and cannot blow when the north winds " "Blow!" inserted Quin. "Are so cursed cutting?" continued Triplet. "My good sir, I am never cutting!" smirked Soaper. "My dear Snarl," whined he, "give us the benefit of your practiced judgment. Do justice to this ad-mirable work of art," drawled the traitor.
"The violets are doing wonderfully well this year, Bainton," he presently said, with his old kind smile, addressing his gardener "I am taking these to Miss Vancourt this afternoon." Bainton lifted his cap respectfully. "God bless her!" he said, "An' you too, Passon!" And John, holding the fragrant bunch of small sweet flowers tenderly in his hand, answered gently "Thank you, my friend!
The violets which abundantly covered the grave were in full blossom, even as they had bloomed beneath those old walls when the sight of them there had induced the poet, prescient of his coming end, to wish that he might sleep his long sleep beneath them. When we had all taken our places, and a eucalyptus plant, sent for the purpose by Mr.
Catherine, wiping a bowl with now superfluous vigour, told her Denys was gone to his friends in Burgundy. "And high time, Hasn't been anigh them this three years, by all accounts." "What, gone without bidding me farewell?" said Margaret, uplifting two tender eyes like full-blown violets. Catherine reddened. For this new view of the matter set her conscience pricking her.
On the morning of the fourth day, before life had begun to move in the streets of Paris, and before the houses were opened, a cry was heard in the great highways of the city, ringing up into all the houses, and entering all the agitated hearts that heard it: "Flowers, bring flowers! Mirabeau wants flowers! Bring roses and violets for Mirabeau! Mirabeau wants to die amid flowers!"
He had tramped back in the teeth of a growing blizzard to send an order for violets to Hollywood Gardens, Seattle. The flowers were to be expressed to a lady at Scenic Hot Springs. After that Tisdale spent an interval moving restlessly about the room.
The Bowers appeared to know it, and one and another whispered as she passed, "Adorn thyself with me, thou beautiful child, adorn thyself with me!" and, to please them, Pearl gathered the violets, and anemones, and columbines, and some twigs of the freshest green, which the old trees held down before her eyes.
She ceased to rub the table, shook the cloth, folded it with nicety, the other girl speechlessly regarding her. "He gives me these every day," Miss Dawson went on, and dashed a hand towards the violets in her breast. "He gave me this," she lightly fingered the turquoise and pearl pendant. "I don't wear his ring yet, our rules not allowing it."
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