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Box I believe in your constancy. Buttercup Riches. You are rich. Calla Ethiopica Magnificent beauty. Carnation Pride and Beauty. Camelia Japonica Surpassing excellence. Cedar Think of me. China Aster Caprice. Cypress Despair, and without hope. Dahlia Dignity I will sustain it. Daisy Youthful beauty. Dandelion Coquetry, I accuse you of. Eglantine I wound to heal. Forget-me-not True love for ever.
Reaction: The KuKlux Klan Even before the Civil War a secret organization, the Knights of the Golden Circle, had been formed to advance Southern interests. After the war there were various organizations Men of Justice, Home Guards, Pale Faces, White Brotherhood, White Boys, Council of Safety, etc., and, with headquarters at New Orleans, the thoroughly organized Knights of the White Camelia.
Her strange eyes shone, her lips curved soft and inviting, her cheeks and throat were like warm, white velvet. He took her outstretched hand of the texture of a camelia and it pulsed as if a heart beat in it. "Felicity," he half whispered, holding her hand, "how wonderful you are!" "Am I?" she breathed, sighingly. "I have been asleep so long, Stefan. perhaps I am awake a little now."
Her drooping eyelashes seem like the points of the iron crown; her skin, which is as fresh as the calyx of a white camelia, is streaked with the purple of the red camelia; over her virginal complexion one seems to see the bloom of young fruit and the delicate down of a young peach; the azure veins spread a kindling warmth over this transparent surface; she asks for life and she gives it; she is all joy and love, all tenderness and candor; she loves her husband, or at least believes she loves him.
Cowdery, despite their remoteness of surrounding for she always places her graceful figures, which are no less than the embodiments of her own graceful states of being, in a dense woodland scene bring up to the senses all the fragrances of that past time, the redolence of the oleander by the wall, of the camelia in the shadow, and of the pansy by the hedge.
"Come this minute or I'll drag you along by your pig-tail the way naughty Freddy used to do before I took you in charge." Joseph went with his protector without more ado, but did not approve of the plan disclosed to him behind the camelia bush. "Don't do it, Willy. It will be disobedience, and it's against the fourth commandment."
"It is a curious fact how much climate has to do with love-making. In our cold country the progress is lamentably slow. Fogs, east winds, sleet, storms, and cutting March weather nip many a budding flirtation; whereas warm, sunny days and bright moonlight nights, with genial air and balmy zephyrs, open the heart like the cup of a camelia, and let us drink in the soft dew of "
After the performance he hurried off to cut a brilliant figure at the salon of the beautiful Delphine Gay, the wife of Emile de Girardin, in company with Lautour-Mezeray, the "man with the camelia," Alphonse Karr, Eugene Sue, Dumas, and sometimes Victor Hugo and Lamartine.
The fundamental object of the White Camelia was the "maintenance of the supremacy of the white race," and to this end the members were constrained "to observe a marked distinction between the races" and to restrain the "African race to that condition of social and political inferiority for which God has destined it."
We were told that the camelia is so called in honour of a Spanish Jesuit Camel who brought it to Europe, where it is known as the Camelia japonica. From one kind, the oleifera, a large amount of oil is extracted, used in Japan for domestic purposes. The beautiful lotus also is common; the Japanese using the root when young for food. When thoroughly boiled, it is very palatable.
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