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Florence went to the door, and a neat servant with an apple-blossom face opened it. "Is Mrs. Trevor in?" asked Florence. "Yes, miss; what name shall I say?" Florence gave her name: "Miss Florence Aylmer." She was immediately ushered into the snug drawing-room, bright with firelight. She shut her eyes, and a feeling of pain went through her heart.
'I remember in May I, too, used to sit with her on that seat.... The apple-tree was in blossom, the fresh white flowers fell upon us sometimes; I held both Varia's hands... we were happy then.... Now the apple-blossom is over, and the apples on the tree are sour.
And, just think, not only Dreamthorp, but every English village she has made beautiful after one fashion or another making vivid green the hill slope on which straggling white Welsh hamlets hang right opposite the sea; drowning in apple-blossom the red Sussex ones in the fat valley.
It was as much an essential part of her as the rhythm of her pulses and the blood in her veins. She was no longer the apple-blossom vision of the morning. She wore her mother-o'-pearl sari with its narrow gold border. Her dress, that was the colour of a dove's wing, shimmered changefully as she moved, and her aquamarine pendant gleamed like drops of sea water on its silver chain.
She was asleep, and she did not raise her head till Stella shook her shoulder. Linda Abbey had been a pretty girl, very fair, with apple-blossom skin and a wonderfully expressive face. It gave Stella a shock to see her now, to gage her suffering by the havoc it had wrought. Linda looked old, haggard, drawn.
"Why, Charlotte, how are you? You two look as if you had been in mischief." A moment later who should walk in but Mrs. Leigh, looking like an old ivory portrait, her apple-blossom face framed in silver puffs and white frills. "Are you at home, and ready to show your pretty things? Upon my word, I am glad to see the shop open again. We have missed you." "Thank you, dear Mrs.
There were grapes in blossom, and grapes purple and ready to eat, and there were great masses of snowy pear-blossom, and pink apple-blossom, and golden ripe pears, and rosy apples. At all of those wonders Odysseus stood and gazed, but it was not for long; for he hastened through the halls to where the Queen sat in the firelight, spinning her purple yarn.
On the contrary, it is quite clear that, whatever he may be when he grows up I don't altogether trust his nose and mouth for a child he is a beauty! His great brown eyes so dark and noticeable beneath the fair hair in the little apple-blossom face let you into the very heart of him. It is by no means a heart of unmixed goodness.
I didn't believe he could tell me much about that, anyway; and the duty that weighed on my mind most at that minute was my duty to Sally." And thus, in the flickering fire-light and the apple-blossom fragrance, the two wedded lovers sat talking and dreaming, and taking joy of each other while the night wore on.
But this is certain the vision steals from him who looks on it all images of other things, all sense of law, of order, of the living past, and the living present. It is the future, fair-scented, singing, jewelled, as when suddenly between high banks a bough of apple-blossom hangs quivering in the wind loud with the song of bees.
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