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Updated: June 3, 2025
Grandmamma's violets were certainly best of all, but they never went in the basket, being carried home, almost flower by flower, as soon as they were found; therefore blue-bells might be said to be the best, for the cowslips were all withered and gone, before I learned the true value of flowers.
Between them lies a whole pile of flowers dandelion stems made into rings, and the rings joined together so as to form a chain, rushes plaited, blue-bells, cowslips tied up in balls, and cowslips loose, their yellow petals scattered over the sward. The brook flows murmuring by, with an occasional splash, as a water-rat dives from the bank or a fish rises to an insect.
They dress exactly like flowers, and change with the seasons, putting on white when lilies are in and blue for blue-bells, and so on. When they think you are not looking they skip along pretty lively, but if you look and they fear there is no time to hide, they stand quite still, pretending to be flowers.
The philosophic reflections of James were interrupted by the merry voices of a troop of children, who were getting over a stile into the lane, where he and Frank were walking. The children had huge nosegays of honeysuckles, dog-roses, and blue-bells, in their little hands; and they gave their flowers to a young woman who attended them, begging she would hold them whilst they got over the stile.
We sat, as it were, in a lown and pleasant place, beholding our prosperity, like the apple-tree adorned with her garlands of flourishes, in the first fair mornings of the spring, when the birds were returning thanks to their Maker for the coming again of the seed-time, and the busy bee goeth forth from her cell, to gather honey from the flowers of the field, and the broom of the hill, and the blue-bells and gowans, which Nature, with a gracious and a gentle hand, scatters in the valley, as she walketh forth in her beauty, to testify to the goodness of the Father of all mercies.
Buntingford entered, flushed with his walk, and carrying a bunch of blue-bells which he presented to Lady Georgina. "I gathered them in Cricket Wood. The whole wood is a sea of blue. You and Cynthia must really go and see them." He settled himself in a chair, and plunged into tea and small talk as though to the manner born.
Rollo approved of the proposal, and he went in and asked his mother's permission to go. She consented, and Rollo, when he came back through the kitchen, said to Dorothy, who was sitting at the window, sewing, "Dorothy, we are going to get some blue-bells to press." "Ah!" said Dorothy. "Where are you going for them?" "O, out by the bridge," said Rollo, as he passed on to go out at the door.
The damp wood, the soft continuous dripping of the cherry-blossoms, the scent of the blue-bells, there was in them a certain shelter and healing. He would have liked to linger there. But already, at Beechmark, guests must have arrived; he was being missed. The trees thinned, and the broad lawns of Beechmark came in sight. Ah! there was Geoffrey, walking up and down with Helena.
After one of those baffling fortnights of bitter wind and cold, which so often mark the beginning of an English May, when all that the spring has slowly gained since March seems to be confiscated afresh by returning winter, the weather had repented itself, the skies had cleared, and suddenly, under a flood of sunshine, there were blue-bells in the copses, cowslips in the fields, a tawny leaf breaking on the oaks, a new cheerfulness in the eyes and gait of the countryman.
So in London, round the purlieus of buildings in the course of erection even in the central thoroughfares, in busy Fleet Street children hang about the temporary hoardings, and pick up the chips and splinters of deal. But the latter have not the pleasure of the blue-bells and cowslips, nor even of the hips and haws, nor does the fresh pure breeze play upon their foreheads.
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