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Updated: May 6, 2025
But we must allow to the 'Hsiao Hsiang consort' the credit of being the best; next in order following: 'Pinning chrysanthemums in the hair, 'Facing the chrysanthemums, 'Putting the chrysanthemums, in vases, 'Drawing the chrysanthemums, and 'Longing for chrysanthemums, as second best." This decision filled Pao-yue with intense gratification.
Another carriage now dashed up, following the grooves of the first wheels not a cab this time, but a perfectly appointed coupe, with two men in livery on the box, and the front windows banked with white chrysanthemums.
Honey-Bee picked flowers along the ditches; she made a posy of marshmallows, white mullein, asters and chrysanthemums; the flowers faded in her little hands and it was pitiful to see them when Honey-Bee crossed the old stone bridge.
It is very magnanimous in me not to hate her; for she beats me in my own way, in chrysanthemums, and dahlias, and the like gauds. Her plants are sure to live; mine have a sad trick of dying, perhaps because I love them, 'not wisely, but too well, and kill them with over-kindness. Half-way up the hill is another detached cottage, the residence of an officer, and his beautiful family.
For you, ye yellow flowers, I've grown haggard and worn, but who doth pity me, And breathe one word of cheer that in the ninth moon I will soon meet you again? "Search for chrysanthemums," by the "Gentleman of I Hung:" When I have naught to do, I'll seize the first fine day to try and stroll about. Neither wine-cups nor cups of medicine will then deter me from my wish.
Edward Neal was only twenty-one, Annie but nineteen, and both were singularly young and innocent of soul. And so it came to be once more the early autumn; the maple leaves were beginning to be red, and my chrysanthemums had again set their tiny round disks of buds.
They thronged the streets with flags and great bunches of chrysanthemums which they showered upon us, so that by the time we reached the Mairie we looked like a walking flower show every man having a flower in his hat.
Her people were exceedingly well-off, and her beautiful room half bedroom, half sitting-room was furnished mostly out of her own pocket-money. She took great pride in its arrangements, and on this special evening it looked more attractive than usual. There were great vases of late roses and early chrysanthemums on the different whatnots and small tables.
I'm so wide awake I've half a mind to pack a little. Randal must go at two, he says, and we shall want his escort," said Emily, as the girls laid away their brocades in the press in Sophie's room. "I'm not going. Aunt can't spare me, and there is nothing to go for yet," answered Sophie, beginning to take the white chrysanthemums out of her pretty hair.
Night drew near; she rose and went on her way. After having asked in the village, she found the home of the Gaos family, which was built up against a high cliff. A dozen granite steps led up to it. Trembling a little at the thought that Yann might have returned, she crossed the small garden where chrysanthemums and veronicas grew.
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