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This was not difficult, for the whole fleet excepting one battleship and two cruisers in dry dock were lying off the dockyard, while the Mikasa was easily distinguishable, even to a stranger, from the fact that she was flying the Admiral's flag. I noticed also that her stem-head was decorated with a gilded conventional representation of the open chrysanthemum, the Imperial crest.
One would be only half-married civilly, and not fashionably without a chrysanthemum wedding; and it lights the way to the tomb. The maiden wears a bunch of it in her corsage in token of her blooming expectations, and the young man flaunts it on his coat lapel in an effort to be at once effective and in the mode.
I'd rather tuck away that white thing behind though I'm blest if it's my work." "Do then, please. I know where papa was," Maisie impatiently continued. "Well, in your place I wouldn't tell." "He was at the club the Chrysanthemum. So!" "All night long? Why the flowers shut up at night, you know!" cried Susan Ash. "Well, I don't care" he child was at the door. "Sir Claude asked for me ALONE?"
He'd git his whack out of it, with the order of the Golden Chrysanthemum or some jig-arig to boot, an' git even with the way he feels to'ard our outfit for'ard, that ain't bin none too sweet to him." The suggestion held a foundation of conviction for Rainey. He had thought of the consul.
Just at present, a crisis, full blown as a chrysanthemum, has developed in the Imperial Diet. Both Houses accuse the Government of improper interference this Japanese for 'plenty stick and some bank-note' at the recent elections. They then did what was equivalent to passing a vote of censure on the Ministry and refusing to vote government measures.
When the second act was over, and Anne had actually so moved her audience that one old farmer was audibly sobbing into a red cotton handkerchief, and the girls themselves were secretly wiping their eyes, Grace whispered to David: "I'm going to write a note, if you'll lend me a pencil and a slip of paper, and wrap it around the stem of this chrysanthemum.
He drove away from the jail in a cab with Doctor Waram, and when the crowd saw that he was wearing the old symbol a yellow chrysanthemum a hiss went up that was like a geyser of contempt and ridicule. Grimshaw's pallid face flushed. But he lifted his hat and smiled into the host of faces as the cab jerked forward. He went at once to Broadenham.
She proceeded to numerous other details, clearly avoiding some cardinal incident. "It was all extremely respectable and nice, ma'am; but her father didn't wear a black coat, and looked quite out of place, ma'am. Mr. Piddingquirk " "Who?" "Mr. Piddingquirk William that was, ma'am had white gloves, and a coat like a clergyman, and a lovely chrysanthemum. He looked so nice, ma'am.
That is a Mademoiselle Louise Bichot that he's begun on now," she added in icy calm, as a glowing orange head was crushed into the huge munching mouth. "Since you have been so frank about the variety of the chrysanthemum," said Eshley, "I don't mind telling you that this is an Ayrshire ox."
Standing by the chaise longue where she lay, he told her so, his auburn head shining among the flowers he carried, like a particularly large chrysanthemum. Then, selecting some empty vases, he sat down on the floor beside her and began to arrange his flowers, while she watched him, at first with surprise, then with growing admiration. Rodney had no social airs and graces, no parlor tricks.
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