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"Nettie," I began, "I was a fool to write to you as I did." She startled me by the assent that flashed out upon her face. But she said nothing, and stood waiting. "Nettie," I plunged, "I can't do without you. I I love you." "If you loved me," she said trimly, watching the white fingers she plunged among the green branches of a selaginella, "could you write the things you do to me?"
Now this little Selaginella is of all living plants the one most like some of the gigantic trees of the coal-forests. These trees are called by botanists Lepidodendrons, or scaly trees; there are numbers of them in all coal-mines, and one trunk has been found 49 feet long. Their branches were divided in a curious forked manner and bore cones at the ends.
In one of these club-mosses called Selaginella, the cases near the bottom of the cone contain large spores, while those near the top contain a powdery dust. These spores are full of resin, and they are collected on the Continent for making artificial lightning in the theatres, because they flare when lighted.
After dinner we went to a very pleasant ball, given by the Jinkhana Club, at the barracks. The room was prettily decorated with the racing jackets and caps of the riders in the races, and with scarlet wreaths of geranium and hibiscus mingled with lycopodium ferns and selaginella.
I think I was at a loss; then I said, not very clearly, "I don't." "You think you you love me, Willie. But you don't." "I do. Nettie! You know I do." For answer she shook her head. I made what I thought was a most heroic plunge. "Nettie," I said, "I'd rather have you than than my own opinions." The selaginella still engaged her. "You think so now," she said. I broke out into protestations.
Over the pool rose a rock, carrying a mass of vegetation, to be seen, doubtless, in every such spot in the island, but of a richness and variety beyond description. Nearest to the water the primeval garden began with ferns and creeping Selaginella.
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