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At all events, May showed no signs of quickening his pace even after crossing the bridge; and it was with the same tranquil manner that he next crossed the Quai aux Fleurs and turned into the Hue de la Cite. Nothing in his bearing or appearance proclaimed him to be an escaped prisoner.
But" he flung a large hand stained with pigments out in an ugly, insolent gesture "any one of these fleurs du mal would have jumped back from the white to the bronze age when the fit was passed, without caring a damn what anyone thought of them. All the moral bravery is in the underworld. That is why I paint it."
'It is only a little robe a fleurs, there's nothing to spoil, and as for my shoes, you'll see I shall get along all right, unless it is very far. 'It is more than a mile. I shall have to take you down to the local cobbler and get you measured. I never saw such feet. He was oddly matter of fact. There was something naive and childish about him, and he amused and interested Mildred.
The coronet begins with the rank of Viscount. The Viscount wears a coronet of which the pearls are without number. The Earl a coronet with the pearls upon points, mingled with strawberry leaves placed low between. The Marquis, one with pearls and leaves on the same level. The Duke, one with strawberry leaves alone no pearls. The Royal Duke, a circlet of crosses and fleurs de lys.
Positively, positively, I advise you, young man, to pay a visit to the CHATEAU DES FLEURS, to the Tivoli, and also to ride out to the island. That's something special. What women, wha-a-at women!" The lieutenant turned red, took his eyes away, and asked in a voice that quavered: "Yes, I've happened to hear that. Is it possible that they're really so handsome?" "Oi! Strike me God!
Like the English woman when she made her first acquaintance with terrapin, the most that Miss Cassandra could be induced to say was that the eau des fleurs d'oranges sucrée was not so very bad. The English dame, of course, said "it is not so very nasty"; but we have not become sufficiently Anglicized to say "nasty" in company.
Bertram here recognized that part of Walladmor Castle which he had seen from the deck of the Fleurs de Lys. The rude dragoons even looked out with awe upon the dreadful spectacle which lay before and below. One of them stepped with folded arms to the door-way, looked out in silence, and shaking his head said "So that's the cage our bird must be carried to?"
And so, for a whole year, he sought to accumulate the most exquisite specimens that he could find of textile and embroidered work, getting the dainty Delhi muslins, finely wrought with gold-thread palmates, and stitched over with iridescent beetles' wings; the Dacca gauzes, that from their transparency are known in the East as "woven air," and "running water," and "evening dew"; strange figured cloths from Java; elaborate yellow Chinese hangings; books bound in tawny satins or fair blue silks, and wrought with fleurs de lys, birds, and images; veils of lacis worked in Hungary point; Sicilian brocades, and stiff Spanish velvets; Georgian work with its gilt coins, and Japanese Foukousas with their green-toned golds and their marvellously-plumaged birds.
I was awakened by the twittering of the birds at a quarter to five, and saw, as I threw open my windows, the yellowing crescent of the moon looking in upon me, while the east was just faintly whitening. An hour later it was delicious out of doors. The anemones were still closed, the apple-trees in full flower: "Ces beaux pommiers, coverts de leurs fleurs etoileens, Neige odorante du printemps."
But why isn't the end of the world as good as the beginning? 'I suppose it isn't, said Ursula, rather angry. 'Oh yes, ultimately, he said. 'It means a new cycle of creation after but not for us. If it is the end, then we are of the end fleurs du mal if you like. If we are fleurs du mal, we are not roses of happiness, and there you are. 'But I think I am, said Ursula.
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