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It would take a great while to tell all that I saw, or their curious little speeches and words and assents. There were samplers in every style of lettering and color. The inevitable tombstone, with the weeping-willow and mourning female, was among them. Bits of painted velvet, huge reticules, bead purses; gay shawls, and curious lace caps all showed patient handiwork.
About this time the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria paid a visit to the Duke of Wellington at Walmer Castle the old tower with fruit-trees growing in the dry moat, and a slip from the weeping-willow which hung over the grave in St.
Each one threw roubles into the plate held out by a little swarthy Bohemian girl with crow-black hair, carelessly combed, falling over her forehead, her eyes and her face, in so droll a fashion that one would have said the little thing was a weeping-willow soaked in ink. The plate reached Prince Galitch, who futilely searched his pockets. "Bah!" said he, with a lordly air, "I have no money.
Pausing here, he plainly descried a stately "chair" leaning on its thills, in the shade of the weeping-willow, three horses hitched side by side to the lane-fence, and a faint glimmer of color between the mounds of box which almost hid the porch. It was not long though the wood on the western hill already threw its shadow into the glen before the sound of voices and hoofs emerged from the lane.
"That's Hester Prynne, all right; the first American girl to make her letter." There were footsteps in the hall outside, and male voices. "Adam and Colin," Pierre recognized them before they entered. Both men were past fifty. Colin MacBride was a six-foot black Highlander; black eyes, black hair, and a black weeping-willow mustache, from under which a stubby pipe jutted.
"You were howling for your master," the giant said, "and the greatest service I could do you was to let you go to him. All right, old fellow, we are both happier for having met." He went into the house, lighted his lamp, sat down, read the letter; he went out and stood under the weeping-willow. "If I am foolish," he said, "it is delicious to be a fool, and God pity the wise.
Therese had dug a grave during the night at the foot of a weeping-willow. "You go too; and stay out there with him. I shall doze, I think, I feel so much better," Michael told Noémi. Noémi left the sick-room and turned the key: then they carried God's recovered angel out, and committed him to the care of the universal mother earth.
So, on this morning, when the wind was gathering its forces as it swept the fields, as the clouds were thickening far away among the whitish tops of the dead cypress trees, he went straightway to the weeping-willow, passed the grave of his father, his mother, and sat down beside the stone that bore the name and the age of the little one. When Mrs.
The swallows above all liked the pond, and used to sit upon the dead branch of the weeping-willow to twitter and sing after their fashion for half-an-hour together.
Before him was a long, clean-swept path ending apparently in a mass of shrubbery; to the left was a field of sweet corn reaching to the hedge; to the right a strong and sturdy growth of pole lima beans; and just within the entrance, beneath the sweeping plumes of a weeping-willow tree, was a shabby but inviting green bench. Abe's glance wandered from the bench to his wife's face.
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