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And she stuck a beautiful carnation pink under Katy's breast-pin and fastened another in her hair. "There!" she said, "now you're adorned. Papa is coming up in a few minutes to take you down." Just then Elsie and Johnnie came in. They had on their best frocks. So had Clover. It was evidently a festival-day to all the house.
Once, when she thought no one was observing her, she took a carnation from a vase near her it had been sent over from Duddon that morning! and put it in her dress. And the next moment, having pulled off her glove, she looked with annoyance at her own roughened hand, and then at Lydia's delicate fingers playing with a paper-knife. Frowning, she hastily slipped her glove on again.
"Some day, perhaps, you will throw away the green carnation." "Oh! it will be out of fashion soon," he answered, as he got delicately into the carriage. "So you have been refused, Reggie," said Esmé, as they drove towards the station. "How original you are! I should never have suspected you of that. But you were always wonderful wonderful and very complete. When did you decide to be refused?
His expressive, but not handsome face was dark, it is true, but it did not look as if wind or sun had contributed to its complexion; it seemed rather to have lost by a sedentary life something of the southern carnation, which had ended by blending these warmer tints into a dead uniform pallor.
The nuns at the Ursuline Convent would scarcely have recognised their quondam pupil in the girl on the grey palfrey, whose hair flew loose under a beaver hat, mingling its tresses with the long ostrich plume, whose trimly fitting jacket had a masculine air which only accentuated the womanliness of the fair face above it, and whose complexion, somewhat too colourless within the convent walls, now glowed with a carnation that brightened and darkened the large grey eyes into new beauty.
Soft, opalescent gleams were blent with prismatic blues, greens, crimsons. Melting violets were stabbed through by hard yellows and penetrant purples. And here an orange flash vied with a delicate old rose; there a rich carnation sparkled beside a misty gray, like fading clouds along the dim horizons of fairyland. The Master murmured: "It's true, then partly true. Rrisa knew part of it!"
She had taken an apartment in the Rue de Lille in the St. Germain quarter. His way was past the flower-shop, where he sometimes bestowed a fickle custom. He went in and bought a carnation for his buttonhole. It is to be presumed that John Turner devoted the afternoon to his affairs. It was at all events evening before he also bent his steps toward the Rue de Lille.
Bébée was silent, weeding her carnation bed; what could she tell them that they would understand? She seemed so far away from them all those good friends of her childhood now that this wonderful new world of his giving had opened to her sight. She lived in a dream. Whether she sat in the market place taking copper coins, or in the moonlight with a book on her knees, it was all the same.
Nino never heard the last of those few notes, any more than the contessina, literally speaking, ever heard the end of the song. "Your cousin, about whom you make so much mystery, passed under my window last night," said the young lady the next day, with the usual display of carnation in her cheeks at the mention of him. "Indeed, signorina?" said Nino, calmly, for he expected the remark.
She imbibed from him such an admiration, such an enthusiasm for Buonaparte, that she cannot bear a word said to his disparagement; and when Sir Culling sometimes offended in that way, Miss Martin's face and neck grew carnation colour, and down to the tips of her fingers she blushed with indignation. Her father the while smiled and winked at me.
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