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As he came nearer to it his hope grew less for he could see where the flames had swept in an inundating sea along Cragg's Ridge. They passed over the meadow where the thick young jackpines, the red strawberries and the blue violets had been and Peter heard the strange sob when they came to the little hollow the old trysting place where Nada had first given herself into his master's arms.
"And how is it," added Cleopatra, "that my husband has not discovered it long since, and transplanted it to our palace." "Probably," answered Lysias, "because he who possesses Cleopatra, the fairest rose of Egypt, regards the violets by the roadside as too insignificant to be worth glancing at.
The brook chuckles to itself as it leaps rollicking between its green banks; the wind whistles merrily in the trees; the sunbeams dance lightly over the soft grass, and the violets and wild flowers look smilingly up from their green nests. To laugh one needs to be happy; to be happy one needs to be content. And throughout the Laughing Valley of Santa Claus contentment reigns supreme.
"Citizen Danton brought me the violets himself, and citizen Santerre the narcissi, and that laurel wreath is it not charming? that was a tribute from citizen Robespierre himself." She was so artless, so simple, and so natural that Heron was completely taken off his usual mental balance.
A few paces to the north-west of the monument is the spot where stood the bungalow in which the massacre was done; and now, where the sight they saw maddened our countrymen long ago to a frenzy of revenge, there bloom roses and violets.
We catch their fragrant scent before we see them, for the tiny flowers are half hidden among broad green leaves. Each blossom has five petals of a dark purple colour; there are white Sweet Violets too, but none are growing in our little wood to-day. At the base of the blossom the part where it joins the stem one of the petals has a little spur which points back towards the stem.
Like most persons who thought perpetually of others, she was not accustomed to being thought of very often in return. But Oliver had remembered, and when the purple box was brought up to her, and Jenny pinned the violets on her dress, a blush mantled her thin cheeks, and she looked for a moment almost as young and lovely as her daughters.
So with the other senses: olfactory ideas tell me I shall find the tactile and visual phenomena called violets, if I look for them; taste tells me that what I am tasting will, if I look at it, have the form of a clove; and hearing warns me of what I shall, or may, see and touch every minute of my life.
A sense of intolerable weariness swept over him as he rose to bid her good-by. Yet he was man enough to show a brave front. "I believe you are right, Cicely," he said. "What I wished for after all was selfish. Your friendship I know that I may keep." "Always," she answered, giving him both her hands. On the stairs he passed Drexley with a bunch of violets in his coat and a new light in his face.
From against the wall behind the piano he saw her come in and stand looking a little blank as though disappointed; then she saw him and smiled, a swift, brilliant smile which warmed yet irritated Ashurst. "You never came after us, Frank." "No; I found I couldn't." "Look! We picked such lovely late violets!" She held out a bunch.
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