Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 25, 2025
A small hamper of flowers, newly arrived from Lady Henry's Surrey garden, and not yet unpacked, was standing open on the table, with various empty flower-glasses beside it.
The peat-fire was falling into masses of white ash, and she thought vaguely of putting on some more turf; then her attention was caught by the withering ferns in the flower-glasses, then by the soaking pasture-lands, then by the spiky branches of the chestnut-trees swinging against the grey, dead sky.
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.
When she got into the house she would linger about the rooms at factitious operations, pouring out of the flower-glasses water that was not stale, or putting on the kettle far too soon, until she heard Richard coming to look for her, lightfootedly but violently, banging doors behind him, knocking into furniture.
Clara and Mrs Nixon swept Maggie's sewing materials from the corner of the table on to a chair, put Maggie's flower-glasses on to the ledge of the bookcase, folded up the green cloth, and began rapidly to lay the tea. Simultaneously Maggie, glancing at the clock, closed up her sewing-machine, and deposited her work in a basket.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking