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But because the road had been the scene of his eternally faded greatness, therefore he attached all this love to it. The years dropped out of sight in gnawing conflicts with his steadily thickening blood, and youth was where the violets of Marburg were, and the songs, and the new wine: with new generations.
Now amuse yourself by weaving a romance out of them and their owner." Amy seized them, and stepping inside the window, examined them by the candle. "A gentleman's gloves, scented with violets! Here's a little hole fretted by a ring on the third finger. Bless me! here are the initials, 'S.P., stamped on the inside, with a coat of arms below. What a fop to get up his gloves in this style!
Gradually I noticed a change in her dress. She wore little lace collars, and bright ribbons I had not seen before; and sometimes she carried a little bouquet of violets, with a white rosebud in the center. As she grew older, I had many rivals. Gallant youths, brave in broadcloth and beavers, followed by dozens the Picciola I had watched so tenderly.
I have put all the violets on my table now completely covered by the odorous mass. But there is still something in the log...a book a manuscript. It is...I cannot believe it, and yet I cannot doubt it.... It is the "Legende Doree"! It is the manuscript of the Clerk Alexander! Here is the "Purification of the Virgin" and the "Coronation of Proserpine"; here is the legend of Saint Droctoveus.
"I have seen a copper cup with a bunch of violets loosely arranged so that they hung over the edge and the copper glinted through the blossoms and leaves and the effect was lovely; but flowers to be put into metal must be chosen with that in mind and arranged with especial care." "Metal jardinières don't seem suitable to me, either," confessed Mrs. Emerson.
Alice was in the midst of all this when, shortly before ten, Mother Bonneton approached, cringing at the side of a visitor, a lady of striking beauty whose dress and general air proclaimed a lavish purse. In a first glance Alice noticed her exquisite supple figure and her full red lips. Also a delicate fragrance of violets.
Bluebell was impressionable, perhaps fanciful, for hitherto her "lines had fallen in pleasant places," and she shivered a little at the forbidding exterior, but was somewhat cheered by a suggestion of welcome conveyed by a bunch of violets on the dressing-table.
He came to meet her, scanning her appearance closely. The girl had put on a soft, light gown, and in her breast, as once before, she had fastened the bunch of violets with the little pearl heart brooch.
Goldilocks knelt, and blew on the prickly plants with her sweet breath. By the nodding of the next breeze, they were changed to roses, violets, and hare-bells. "It is pleasant to see any thing smile, even a flower," said Goldilocks, laughing as she spoke. "I think," replied Despard, "that this is a strange pilgrimage. I believe our very thoughts are alive. I wish I could stop thinking."
And lest there should be a hitch, or he should not have time to accomplish all, he was out of bed by half past six that mysterious hour of dawn when across the glimmering sea Corsica can be seen, floating like a heaped basket of violets in waves of transparent gold.
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