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Pathetically poor little playthings were scattered about her: a doll fashioned from gingham and cotton-waste, makeshift dishes of pasteboard, a doll-carriage made from a broken flower-basket with spools for wheels. The man who entered saw all with one glance and understood that here in this bare room this child had been compelled to drag out the weary hours alone while the mother had toiled.
Below this flower-basket screening the lower window-panes there is a frame with a very fine wire netting, which prevents pedestrians from looking into the rooms. Behind the wire netting, in the divisions between the netting and the framework of the window, there are tables ornamented with china, glass, flowers, statuettes and other trifles.
"If I were alone, I could not sing, Praises to thee; O night! unveil the beautiful soul That awaiteth me!" "A foolish song," said Veronica, pulling her hair across her face. No reply. She glided to the flower-basket, broke a rosebud from its stalk, and mutely offered it to him. Whether he took it, I know not; but he rose up from beside me, like a dark cloud, and my eyes followed him.
I could have laughed outright at her perversity, for of course she had shut them to exclude the sight of the flower-basket, though it was the loveliest little bit of colour, the dark-red chrysanthemum nestled so prettily among trails of tiny variegated ivy.
I'll meet you half way, and study clearness next time. 'What are you two talking about? said Molly, resting on her light spade. 'It's only a discussion on the best way of administering compliments, said Cynthia, taking up her flower-basket again, but not going out of the reach of the conversation. 'I don't like them at all in any way, said Molly.
They were thought so quaint and sweet unlike other people and the girl so lovely, in a sort of gossamer way. And who do you think was always about with them at Peshawar first, and then at Simla so that everybody talked? Captain Warkworth! My man believed there was an understanding between them." Julie had begun to fill the flower-glasses with water and unpack the flower-basket.
A moment after he passed the window on horseback, and with a heavy sigh Mrs. Murray dropped her head on her hand, compressing her lips, and toying abstractedly with the sugar-tongs. Edna watched the grave, troubled countenance for some seconds, and then putting her hand on the flower-basket, she asked softly: "Shall I dress the flower-pots?"
He worked in the trench and looked forward impatiently to Saturday nights when the clerk came along with the pay-envelopes; there were so many things in the stores that would delight the heart of a little girl who had never had any toys except a rag doll and a broken flower-basket. Then there were pretty dresses to buy. The taste of Zelie Dionne took charge of that shopping.
One end of the room was almost filled by the frameless portrait of a dignified clergyman, who would have had far more justice done to him by greater distance; a beautifully-painted miniature of a lady with short waist and small crisp curls, was the centre of a system of photographs over the mantel-piece; a large crayon sketch showed three sisters between the ages of six and sixteen, sentimentalizing over a flower-basket; a pair of water-colour drawings represented a handsome church and comfortable parsonage; and the domestic gallery was completed by two prints one of a middle-aged county-member, the other one of Chalon's ladylike matrons in watered-silk aprons.
Supposing we have a band of music to drown her groans while she is dressing, finished Jill rebelliously, as she contemplated her flower-basket with dissatisfied eyes. Jill's speech recalled Mr.
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