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Updated: June 16, 2025
He stared at her for a moment her head was a little on one side and her eyes on the cornflower and his mind was full of a strange discovery. He seemed on the verge of speaking, and turned to his note-book again. Very soon the centre of the table-cloth resumed its sway. The following day Mr. Lucas Holderness received his cheque for a guinea. Unhappily it was crossed.
At the paddock there was no longer daylight between them, and Old Man Curry stopped combing his beard. He knew what that meant. So did Jockey Merritt, plying whip and spur. So did Al Engle and those who had been given the quiet tip to play Cornflower for a killing.
It was towards the end of June, and our way led through the granary of France, with its long green reaches of meadow and rich cornland. Here, under the clear blue of the sky, and in an air like crystal, stretched endless fields of corn, swaying gently in the gentle breeze, and chequered with vivid patches of blue cornflower and red poppy.
This is excellent where space is of account, and also where more sweet peas are planted for their early yield than can be kept in good shape the whole season. Centaurea or cornflower, the bachelor's button or ragged sailor of old gardens, is in the front rank of the worthies.
A true, rich, cornflower blue even by that wretched artificial light, with soft velvety depths of colour and dazzling clearness of tint in its lights and shades a stone to remember! I stretched out my hand involuntarily, but Lady Carwitchet drew back with a coquettish squeal. "No! no! You mustn't look any closer. Tell me what you think of it now. Isn't it pretty?"
In the days that followed, the advantage of the appointment became clear. The armies worked together as they never had before. The khaki of the British mingled with the cornflower blue of the French. Reserves were sent where they were most needed, no matter what army they were drawn from.
"In stones of the same color; in rubies if it is the poppy; in sapphires if it is the cornflower, with a little leaf in emeralds." Annette's face lighted up with that affectionate joy with which promises and presents animate a woman's countenance. "The cornflower," said she, "it is so pretty." "The cornflower it shall be. We will go to order it as soon as we return to Paris."
Hawthorne to "gay up" the room, as she said, had hung windows and doors with draperies of her favorite cornflower blue, and covered the chairs with the same. On the floor she had stretched a pearl-gray carpet all aglow with wreaths of roses tied with ribbons of blue; and over the carpet at the bedside, before the dressing-table, in front of the fireplace laid down white bear-skins.
One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. One is a thief, one is a street-walker all the more reason. The more one drinks of the darkness of night the more is one thirsty for the light of dawn. Schinderhannes becomes a cornflower, Poulailler a violet. Hence these sinisterly ideal weddings. And then, what happens? What I have just said. Cloaca, but abyss.
There was a streak of yellow paint running from the bridge of her nose to the parting of her brown hair. Her skin was as dark as any Shawnee's, but her eyes held the blue of the cornflower. I tried to discover points of resemblance between her and the boy and succeeded only when she turned her head in profile; then they were very much alike.
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