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One flower, carefully placed in a room, will have more real decorative value than dozens of costly roses strewn about in the wrong vases, against mottled, line-destroying backgrounds. Flowers are always more beautiful in a plain vase, whether of glass, pottery, porcelain or silver.
His room no doubt Is still adorned by many a cast from Shout, With graceful flowers tastefully placed about, And coronals of bay from ribbons hung, And brighter wreaths in neat disorder flung; The gifts of the most learn'd among some dozens Of female friends, sisters-in-law, and cousins.
There are dozens of girls who would accept you gladly for yourself, and perhaps be better pleased to find that they had not married a whole tribe of relations, sisters and aunt, who might interfere with their domestic arrangements. Depend on it if every lieutenant and ward-room officer of our four fortunate frigates were to go on shore at once, we could each of us be married within a fortnight."
It was at this point that the really lively and exciting part of his adventure began. Compared with what was to follow, his evening had been up to the present dull and monotonous. As he opened the door there was a sudden stir and crash at the other end of the room. Fenn had upset one chair and the noise had nearly deafened him. Now chairs seemed to be falling in dozens. Bang! Bang!
It was ten days before the next boat would touch at his post. I do not know that it reached him in time. One could tell dozens of such stories of cruelty to natives and of injustice and neglect to the white agents.
Helena not Paleologus, falling, desperately fighting, piled over dozens deep with Grecian corpses not calm old Socrates, drinking the hemlock outvies that terminus of the secession war, in one man's life, here in our midst, in our own time that seal of the emancipation of three million slaves that parturition and delivery of our at last really free Republic, born again, henceforth to commence its career of genuine homogeneous Union, compact, consistent with itself.
Every captain who led a company into action was killed. Some of these captains were but boys. The men were falling by dozens. All the Indians, by far the most formidable part of the invading force, were through the swamp now, and, dashing down their unloaded rifles, threw themselves, tomahawk in hand, upon the defense.
Gentlemen may say, 'but they are a weak Government; they have not a majority, and they are obliged to be very civil. But what I maintain is, that every Ministry ought to be very civil, and what I am prepared to assert is and I ask every man on this side of the House if he does not agree with me, for I have heard dozens of them say it out of the House that when the late Government were in office civility was a thing unknown.
'Trouble! Nonsense! No trouble at all! Look here, Rose, that woman has died now. She shook the letter threateningly. 'Read this! Reginald's wife! I suppose she was his wife. I dare say he had dozens. 'Caroline! Sophia remonstrated. Rose took the letter and read what Mrs. Reginald Mallett, believing herself about to die, had written in her big, sprawling hand.
The Cranstons, Trumans, and Hays, Boynton, Hastings, and Sanders, battle-scarred heroes, most of them, and dozens of others in the congenial circle; but Margaret Cranston sorely missed her boys, who were big enough now to be at school, and far too big to be staying around garrison.
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