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Updated: June 5, 2025
This was enough to make even a rising statesman angry, and, when angry, absurd. A very few hours after its occurrence, the scene at the flower-show was regretted by all who took part in it.
It was not worth while to change one's frock. Even when one was properly dressed, at rare local garden-party or flower-show, one never met anyone that mattered. She fetched her sketching things. At eighteen one does so pathetically try to feed the burgeoning life with the husks of polite accomplishment.
You send Gafferson and he goes off to see a flower-show Mother of Moses! think of it! a FLOWER-show! and your Tavender aud I are left to take a stroll together, and talk over old times and arrange about new times, and so on, to our hearts' content. Really, it's too easy! You make me tired!" The nobleman offered a wan, appealing shadow of a smile.
He closed the door behind him, and then, with his quickest motion, raised the lid and put within the box, just under the bit of work on which she was employed, a light small paper parcel. It contained the purse which she had worked for him, and had given to him with such sweet affection at the Chiswick flower-show.
She liked a bulk of colour; and when the dahlia dawned upon our gardens, she gave her heart to dahlias. By good desert, the fervent woman gained a prize at a flower-show for one of her dahlias, and `Dahlia' was the name uttered at the christening of her eldest daughter, at which all Wrexby parish laughed as long as the joke could last. There was laughter also when Mrs.
Staines was writing for the bare life, and a number of German books about him, slaving to make a few pounds when in comes the buoyant figure and beaming face his soul delighted in. He laid down his work, to enjoy the sunbeam of love. "Oh, darling, I've only come in for a minute. We are going to a flower-show on the 13th; everybody will be so beautifully dressed especially that Mrs. Vivian.
Val, seating herself on Gertrude's sofa, having rushed up almost unannounced into the drawing-room, followed by Clementina; 'indeed, Lady Howlaway is waiting for me this moment; but I must settle with you about the June flower-show. 'Oh! thank you, Mrs. Scott, don't trouble yourself about me, said Gertrude; 'I don't think I shall go.
The whole place was alive with faces, mostly pretty girls' faces, under fascinating hats, gay as flowers in a flower-show; parterre above parterre of brilliant blossoms; and they had all been grown in honour of us. There was a wild waving of handkerchiefs on the ship, and a frantic fluttering of white among the flowers, as if a flock of butterflies had been frightened up into the air.
A flower-show in the morning; then a tenants' dinner with a speech from Ashe; and now, in a marquee erected for the occasion, Lord Parham was addressing his supporters in the county.
"One must never smoke in a room inhabited at times by the ladies; thus, a well-bred man, who has a wife or sister, will not offer to smoke in the dining-room after dinner. "One must never smoke in a public place, where ladies are or might be; for instance, a flower-show or promenade.
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