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"Nothing, daughter, nothing." "It was my asking for the key which agitated you so violently, father. What does this little house contain which frightens you so much?" "Rosalie, Rosalie! you do not know what you are saying. Go and look for your watering-pot in the green-house." "But, father, what is there in the little garden-house?" "Nothing that can interest you, Rosalie."
I took out my handkerchief, dipped a corner in the watering-pot, and carefully wiped the finger clear of anything that might be sticking to it, though, as my own hands were so lately in contact with Polly's skin, I don't believe that I did much good; but it satisfied my aunt, who turned once more to Uncle Joe. "Now then, Joseph; what did you say?"
Visions of hot summer evenings come back, with Uncle Tom, in his seersucker coat, with his green watering-pot, bending over the beds, and Aunt Mary seated upright in her chair, looking up from her knitting with a loving eye.
She was unlocking the tool-chest on which he had been sitting, and now raised the lid, stowed away her trowel and watering-pot, locked the chest again and put the key in her pocket, with the remark, "I guess I hain't got any more use for a sprinkle-pot to-day." "It is rather de trop," said Putnam.
No woman had ever existed or ever would exist for him but his poor darling, sleeping in the Montparnasse Cemetery, whose grave he visited every Sunday with a little watering-pot concealed under his coat.
"Gracious sakes!" said the woman with the trowel and watering-pot as she glanced along the winding canals that led out from the summer-house "jest see the water in them walks!" "Gol! 'tis awful!" murmured the Irishman with the spade. "There'll be a fut of water in the grave, and the ould mon to be buried the morning!"
'As an enchanted prince, I suppose? said Miss Temple. 'Exactly, said Captain Armine; 'I would willingly this instant become a flower, if I were sure that Miss Temple would cherish my existence. 'Cut off your tendrils and drown you with a watering-pot, said Miss Temple; 'you really are very Sicilian in your conversation, Captain Armine. 'Come, said Mr.
"Reine," said he, coaxingly, "I think we shall have to decide upon a day for our wedding." She set down the watering-pot with which she was wetting the linen, and looked anxiously at her betrothed. "I thought we had agreed to wait until the later season. Why do you wish to change that arrangement?"
Finally, the watering-pot was turned on again, obliging even oil cloths to beat a retreat to the cabin, and so continued until we reached Christiania. After a mild custom-house visitation, not a word being said about passports, we stepped ashore in republican Norway, and were piloted by a fellow-passenger to the Victoria Hotel, where an old friend awaited me.
We shall have vines and myrtles and orange trees on the terrace, and I shall have a watering-pot and garden just as you do, though it must be on the bricks instead of the ground. For temperature, the stoves are said to be very effective in the winter, and in the summer we are cool and airy; the advantage of these thick-walled palazzos is coolness in summer and warmth in winter.
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