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Updated: May 22, 2025
Parched and dry as the ground looked where I was resting, a few grains of barley, dropped by mules on the occasion of a previous visit, had taken root and had grown up into ear; and there were also a few roots of a sort of dog-violet, showing its delicate lavender-coloured flowers 11,000 feet above the sea, and far beyond the level of any other vegetation.
The dog has suggested sundry plant names, this prefix frequently suggesting the idea of worthlessness, as in the case of the dog-violet, which lacks the sweet fragrance of the true violet, and the dog-parsley, which, whilst resembling the true plant of this name, is poisonous and worthless.
No dark stories; only a leading notion that he was a man who wanted to improve his fortunes, and would not be over-scrupulous as to the means. But as your over-scrupulous man is one in a thousand, this was ranking Captain Winstanley with the majority. The winter was over; there were primroses peeping out of the moss and brambles, and a shy little dog-violet shining like a blue eye here and there.
There was a dead pause of astonishment the combatants rested on their swords and even the forwardness of Wildrake only vented itself in half-suppressed ejaculations, as, "Well done, Doctor this beats the 'parson among the pease' No less than your patron's daughter And Mistress Alice, whom I thought a very snowdrop, turned out a dog-violet after all a Lindabrides, by heavens, and altogether one of ourselves."
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