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"I think I'll give a little dinner for you to-morrow night," said Camellia reflectively, as we sat about. "A very informal one, of course just some of our neighbours." I felt my spirits drop. I saw those of Hepatica and the Skeptic and the Philosopher drop, although they made haste to prop their countenances up again. But the Judge protested. "Why give anything, my dear?" he questioned.
At the back of the house is a garden, containing almost every tree peculiar to the climate; and it was a novelty to us to see collected together the cotton-tree, the areca, sago, palm, &c., with every variety of the Camellia japonica in a state of most luxurious wildness.
Fleda enjoyed them at a distance, and could not help thinking that Heaven sends almonds to those that have no teeth. "This camellia will just do for my hair to-morrow night!" said Florence; "just what I want with my white muslin." "I think I will go with you to-morrow, Florence," said Fleda; "Mrs. Decatur has asked me so often."
Full in the midst of an immense blue damask sofa sat Lady Diana, in grey brocade. She was rather a small woman in reality, but dignity made a great deal more of her. Eustace, with a splendid red camellia in his coat, was standing by her, blushing, and she was graciously permitting the presentation of the squirting violet.
Camellia never seemed conscious of her fine attire that could always truthfully be said. Although on the present occasion she was dressed as duchesses dress for a lawn-party, she seemed supremely unconscious of the fact. The only trouble was that the rest of us could not be unconscious of it. The dinner moved slowly.
"I don't see," said the Philosopher in my ear, at a moment when Camellia was occupied with the Skeptic and the Gay Lady, "what there is about that to upset you all." "Don't you?" said I pityingly. Evidently, from what he had heard us say, he had expected her to arrive in an elaborate reception gown or possibly in spangles and lace! Camellia went to her room the white room.
Its form was determined by its location. The principal building runs east and west. This is divided by a brick wall into two unequal parts, that facing the south being the largest. On the north side we have first, at the west end, a small Camellia house. It would be also adapted to Orchids, Caladiums, Begonias, Ferns, and all plants requiring partial shade.
We all did our best, including the Philosopher, whose collar was slowly melting, so that he had to keep his chin well up, lest it crush the linen hopelessly beneath. The Skeptic joked ceaselessly, but one could see that all the time he feared his cravat might be awry. The dinner itself was a much more formal affair than usual somehow that always seemed necessary when Camellia was one's guest.
It really is too much for Amy, said Philip, making a move as if to take possession of him, as he arrived at the foot of the stairs. 'Like the camellia, I suppose, he replied; and taking his other crutch from Charlotte, he began determinedly to ascend without assistance, resolved to keep Philip a prisoner below him as long as he could, and enjoying the notion of chafing him by the delay.
She was so pale in her dinner gown of black tulle that all the blood seemed to have taken refuge in her lips so pale that the single camellia thrust in her corsage was less waxen in its whiteness than her neck. I caught her hands and she stood close to me, smiling bravely, the tips of her fingers trembling in my own. "You are ill!" I exclaimed, now thoroughly alarmed.
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