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Updated: June 14, 2025
"'Stop, Brownie! he cried; 'let me look at this place! Surely I've been here before. That red curtain, that flower-stand in the window, that Oh! oh! there's my own little house! Why, Captain Bobtail's Brownie, you've brought me home! "Now, all this time Tufty's mistress had been in great trouble.
The obstacle beneath my feet made me stagger; I grasped the folds of a window-curtain in the hope of saving myself, but my equilibrium was too far gone down came the curtain over I went, head first, against a flower-stand, on which were a nondescript array of flowerpots, a canary bird in a cage, and a big Maltese cat in a basket.
Mike scanned every thin face for Lily, and as he stood wedged against a flower-stand, a girl passed him. She turned. It was Lily. "Lily, is it possible? I was looking for you everywhere." "Looking for me! When did you arrive in Nice? How did you know I was here?" "Mrs. Byril wrote. She described a girl, and I knew from her description it must be you. And I came on at once."
It may have been fear or curiosity, certainly it was no desire for learning, that took me to Gardener Tonken's glass-house next Saturday afternoon. The goose-driver was there to welcome me. "Ah, wide-mouth," he cried; "I knew you would be here. Come and see my library." He showed me a pile of dusty, tattered volumes, arranged on an old flower-stand.
"If you're anxious, I'll put some flowers at my breast." She plucked a handful of blossoms from a flower-stand where they were growing and allowed them to nestle in her bosom; while Madame Deberle was surrounded by several mammas in stylish visiting-dresses, who were already profuse in their compliments about her ball.
'Thornton was helping me in the hall when I saw Etta watering her flower-stand. Well, never mind; she shall have her lecture presently. Now let us go to Gladys. Of course his first look at her told him she was better, and he went downstairs contentedly to eat his dinner.
James Ellis watched the young gardener, expecting moment by moment, and, in his then frame of mind, almost hoping to see him knock down some pot on to the tiled floor, or stumble over some flower-stand.
She sat beyond the flower-stand in the bay-window, reading and knitting; but she was not so interested in her book as not to hear something of what was said. Mrs Jacob told some village news, and then spoke about Clifton, and about a new dress that was to be finished for her to-day, and much more of the same kind. It was not Mrs Jacob's fault that the conversation took the turn it did.
Her flower-stand has extended itself by degrees into an orangery not large to be sure, but yet large enough to shelter a beautiful vine, which is now covered with grapes, and many beautiful and rare plants also, so as to present to the family a little Italy, where they may enjoy all the charms of the south, in the midst of a northern winter.
I let him loose on the flower-stand yesterday, hoping he might deal death to a horde of insects who had suddenly squatted on the soil of the money-plant. He scarcely so much as looked at the insects, but hopped up to the adjoining rose-bush, and proceeded to gorge himself with tender young leaves. I tilted him away from that, and he fluttered across the money-plant over to the geranium opposite.
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