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Updated: September 14, 2025
Not that it would make any difference. I should not go outside the door. I am accustomed to this life now." He sat with his hands idly crossed on his knee, and looked at nothing in particular. Nothing could arouse him now from his apathy, except perhaps the culture of carnations certainly not the arrival of the son whom he had never seen.
I have found this feeling most perfectly expressed in some lines to the Snowdrop by our lost poet, Dolben. I am in doubt, he wrote, If summer brings a flower so lovable Of such a meditative restfulness As this, with all her roses and carnations.
A feeling touching the nature of things does not only make men feel that there are certain proper things to say; it makes them feel that there are certain proper things to do. The more agreeable of these consist of dancing, building temples, and shouting very loud; the less agreeable, of wearing green carnations and burning other philosophers alive.
These, too, appear to bear flowers, asters, carnations, or roses. And for miles at a time we can rove and sport in a beautiful coral grove. Think of a little house, if you can, made entirely of ivory, with here and there bright tints mingling with the white. For coral looks like ivory when its natural roughness is smoothed and polished.
Mayo raised geraniums and carnations in her front cellar, near the furnace, and once in a while Peggy, with the pulled-molasses hair, or chubby Abraham Lincoln, would come puffing up Honora's stairs under the weight of a flower-pot and deposit it triumphantly on the table at Honora's bedside.
Straight before him, into the unruffled, tideless sea, the sun was sinking in all its blood-red glory as he went at swinging pace along the white, dusty road, past the octroi barrier, and out into the country where, on the left, the waves lazily lapped the grey rocks, while upon the right the fertile slopes were covered with carnations and violets growing for the markets of Paris and London.
I shall wait till the last minute, and if not here must go after them. I dare not come to you without the carnations! Have me met by the 9.30. Yours for ever, and ever, and ever JACK." "My dear, four hours isn't much," I reminded her. "Four hours is a lifetime," she said. She stared, positively with tears in her eyes, at her pretty reflection in the glass.
How will it be with you when the slug gets your roses, and the snail your carnations, and your hens die of damp, and your lace is all wove awry, because your head runs on reading and folly, and you are spoilt for all simple pleasures and for all honest work?" She smiled, still looking up at the moon, with the dropping ivy touching her hair. "You are cross, dear Jeannot. Good night."
A great box of flowers had come with the greens, and bowls of fresh roses and heliotrope and carnations were set everywhere; violets and primroses, gold-hearted brown auriculas, spikes of veronica, all the zones and all the seasons, combining to make the Christmas-tide sweet, and to turn winter topsy-turvy in the little parlor.
Her flowers had been carnations, and only two dozen of them, at that. The next afternoon, Thayer found himself in the familiar room, with Beatrix's hand in his own. "Only ten weeks, measured by time," he answered her greeting; "but it seems half a decade since we were killing time on the beach at Monomoy." "Killing crabs, you would better say," she returned, with a smile.
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