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Updated: October 11, 2025
Continue to sustain me, O thou whom Christ hath called Blessed! April 9th The fine evenings are come back; the trees begin to put forth their shoots; hyacinths, jonquils, violets, and lilacs perfume the baskets of the flower-girls all the world have begun their walks again on the quays and boulevards. After dinner, I, too, descend from my attic to breathe the evening air.
It is well-nigh midnight, the hour when young London is most astir in his favorite haunts; when ragged and well-starved flower-girls, issuing from no one knows where, beset your path through Trafalgar and Liecester squares, and pierce your heart with their pleadings; when the Casinoes of the Haymarket and Picadilly are vomiting into the streets their frail but richly-dressed women; when gaudy supper-rooms, reeking of lobster and bad liquor, are made noisy with the demands of their flauntily-dressed customers; when little girls of thirteen are dodging in and out of mysterious courts and passages leading to and from Liecester square; when wily cabmen, ranged around the "great globe," importune you for a last fare; and when the aristocratic swell, with hectic face and maudlin laugh, saunters from his club-room to seek excitement in the revels at Vauxhall.
It might be that of England, I thought, and I went to my apartment full of curiosity, and dressed myself with all speed. 'My uncle surveyed me with attention "She may pass for one of the flower-girls," he said to Nixon, who only answered with a nod.
Of the latter we had enough in their season to furnish all the flower-girls on Broadway with a stock in trade. Our gardener "made his garden" in February. By the middle of March, his potatoes, cabbages, beets, and other vegetables under his care were making fine progress.
But business-hour at the market is very near, my friends, and I must leave you, as I have affairs of great importance to transact." "I will accompany you," said Zopyrus, "I want to order some garlands for Rhodopis' house." "Aha," laughed the Milesian. "I see, you want to talk to the flower-girls again. Come, it's of no use to deny.
So many of our soldiers had been through the British base that they were no longer a novelty. The French flower-girls did not empty their stalls into the arms of the regiments, as on the first days. It was an English voice that gave the new-comers the highest praise, because professional. "A hefty lot! ... Wish I were leading them."
Far better let her give it you for the love of beauty as very likely, if you explained the incongruity, she would be glad to do: for flower-girls, no doubt, like every one else, can only have chosen their particular profession because of its being a joy for ever. There might be fitness in offering a kiss on account, though that, of course, would depend on the flower-girl.
"... No, he don't want the coat. We likes to know where our things comes from." Bill Evans finished his glass. "Good-night, guv'nor; no ill-feeling." The flower-girls laughed; one offered him a flower. "Take it for love," she said. He was kind enough to do so, and the three went out together. "I don't like the looks of that chap," said William, and he let go the champagne cork. "Yer health, sir."
I do not attempt to account for this exception to the general rule, unless it be explainable upon the logical theory that the skill necessary for the making of artificial flowers is found only in a vastly superior class of girls. The flower-girls I met at Rosenberg's were, without exception, wholesome-minded and pure-hearted.
The gayly dressed flower-girls, with dainty little baskets rich in color and captivating in fragrance, press button-hole bouquets on the pedestrians, while men perambulate the streets with cakes and candies displayed in open wooden boxes hung about their necks. In short, Sunday is made a holiday, when grandees and beggars come forth like marching regiments into the Puerto del Sol.
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