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She was out of hearing too soon to catch her mother's answer: "She's just worked up over the wedding, and being a flower-girl and all." "Well, I don't believe," stated Aunt Nettie with the assurance that spinsters are wont to show in discussing such matters, "that it's good for children to let them work themselves up that way. She'll be as much upset as the bridegroom if Helen does back out."
"I suppose I suppose he really is coming?" she said with sudden suspicion. Jimmy flushed scarlet. "I haven't deserved that," he said. Christine laughed a hard little laugh, strangely unlike her. "I am not so sure," she answered. They had turned into Regent Street now. A flower-girl thrust a bunch of scented violets into Jimmy's face. "Buy a bunch for the pretty lady, sir."
"Here, these will do; keep the rest for a more difficult customer. Be a good child; pray to God, and serve Him, and you will find He is the Father of the fatherless." And so he went away; and the flower-girl, without waiting to put her basket in order, turned to the old vegetable-seller, and cried, "Sixpence! a whole sixpence, and all at once. What will grandmother say now?
The only flower-girl I could find was a fat one of fifty, who kept me fifteen minutes in Via Tornabuoni while she was fumbling away at my button-hole, trying to poke three second-hand violets and a sickly daisy into it. Ah, youth! youth! I suppose a young fellow could have found that other flower-girl at a glance; but my old eyes! No, we belong, each of us, to our own generation. Mrs.
It is a comedy. Oh, Victor, Victor, Victor!" He came out a moment later, seeming to fill the world with his giant bulk and his astounding radiation of joy. Two narrow-chested city clerks stood still to stare at him, their pallid little faces blank with amazement. A red-nosed flower-girl thrust a great bunch of yellow roses up at him with certainty of sale written all over her. "Roses? Of course.
The young artist was first among the portrait-painters of Amsterdam, and had a long waiting-list on his calendar, but we find he managed to paint a portrait of Saskia about that time. We have the picture now and we also have four or five other pictures of her that Rembrandt produced that year. He painted her as a queen, as a court lady and as a flower-girl.
And then there was such a pretty little room at one side, with a rose tree against the window; and a little shelf for books against the wall; and a round table, and some chairs, and an easy couch. And there were two nice bedrooms overhead; and, better than all these, was a pretty garden. Oh! how happy was the little flower-girl; and how thankful was poor Mrs. Newton!
And speaking of purses, reminds one of another essential difference between the male and female human animal. A man carries his money in his pocket. When he wants to use it, he takes it out and lays it down. This is a crude way of doing things, a woman displays more subtlety. Say she is standing in the street, and wants fourpence to pay for a bunch of violets she has purchased from a flower-girl.
I purchased a nice property in the country, built a Church upon it, and have ever thanked God, who never forsakes those who wish to act righteously. "It pleased God to take all my sweet children from me every state has its trials the youngest was just like your little flower-girl." Mrs. Newton was much pleased with this story; she then told her own, and little Fanny's.
Henry Bowen looked earnestly at the child's face, and his own lighted up with pleasure, as one who stumbles upon success just as he has despaired of it. "The very face I have been looking for!" he exclaimed to himself. "My flower-girl is found at last!" He turned round, and followed Ida and her companion. Both stopped at a shop-window to examine some articles which were exhibited there.
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