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It was just like the child to blush, feeling herself the centre of observation, but she could not help wishing that her blush had not been quite so quick and sensitive. But if she had flushed when he entered, she flushed far more when he came to speak to her. He held in his hand a bouquet of flowers, white camellia buds and bloom, and dark, shadowy green; a whim of his own, he said.
But then regularity! who wanted it, who would have thought the most pure classic type a change for the better, with those dark, dancing, challenging eyes; with that arch, brilliant, kitten-like face, so sunny, so mignon, and those scarlet lips like a bud of camellia that were never so handsome as when a cigarette was between them, or sooth to say, not seldom a short pipe itself?
In several states the Negro militia was used as a constabulary and was sent to any part of the state to make arrests. In spite of this provocation there were, after the riots of 1866-67, comparatively few race conflicts until reconstruction was drawing to a close. The intervening period was filled with the more peaceful activities of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Camellia.
But after all the discussion he says: "To the question, Is this an animal or a plant? we must often reply, We do not know." The Microscope. Next to the rose, no flower* is more beautiful or more useful than the camellia. It may readily be so managed that its natural season of blooming shall be from October to March, thus coming in at a time when roses can hardly be had without forcing.
"I don't know any reason why we should in the country in July." He looked at me doubtfully. "But is the Skeptic going to really?" "I presume he really is. You see he has met Camellia before. He knows how she will be looking when she comes down. He admires Camellia very much, and he might possibly feel a little odd in tennis flannels " "It's queer," murmured the Philosopher.
"Do you know this variety?" "Very well," she replied; "this is the camellia that weeps." He broke off the flowers. "Marie," he said, "I never have been much addicted to sentimentality, but this flower I shall keep." She turned upon him her astonished eyes. "Because I love it," he added. The noise of a step made them both turn.
Burrage was successful, he could see that in the turn of an eye; not perhaps as having a commanding intellect or a very strong character, but as being rich, polite, handsome, happy, amiable, and as wearing a splendid camellia in his buttonhole.
There were pretty much the usual stock costumes, and nothing original amongst the ladies. The very black-eyed belle with red cheeks wore a mantilla of course, and gripped a fan and had a camellia in her hair, and was called Andalusian, but her walk and expression were "made in England" a Spanish girl's expression and walk can't be got up in a day or two.
His hair, parted in two waves over his pale forehead, was black, very black and shining with bluish reflections, his eyes, as soft as velvet, showed the read spot of the lachrymal on the polished ivory of the cornea, veritable odalisque eyes, his bright red lips showed under his bristly mustache, his complexion was as pale as a camellia, and his teeth flashed like pearl.
There was a rustling behind them of a lady's-dress, and the deep tones of a man's voice talking. Rose started away from his side, the guilty blood rushing to her face at sight of her elder sister on Doctor Danton's arm. Kate's clear eyes fixed on her sister's flushed, confused face, on the waxen camellia, her gift to her lover, and then turned upon Mr. Stanford.
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