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He closed the book. "There is only one thing to do. I must starve in the gutter. Tell me you know New York better than I do where is there a good gutter?" At this moment there entered the restaurant an Immaculate Person. He was a young man attired in faultlessly fitting clothes, with shoes of flawless polish and a perfectly proportioned floweret in his buttonhole.

Light gloves, a cane, and oh, bitter drop in the cup of joy! an ignominious straw hat, not to mention a choice floweret in the buttonhole, and a festoon of watchguard below, finished off this impressive boy. 'How's that for style? he asked, appearing to his mother and cousins whom he was to escort to the hall on this particular occasion.

"I am ready to hope even in spite of Mr. Sheldon's opposing influence. You must not try to crush this one little floweret that has grown up in a barren waste, Diana. It is my prison-flower." Mrs. Sheldon came into the room as he said this.

Have the stems of equal length, so that the effect shall be flat, and not conical. Each must have full space to display every tiny floweret, and not to hide the golden glory beneath. When prepared, set the vase or bowl on the floor, before a grate or to light up some gloomy corner.

If I survive, and she be lost, I were far better dead. Preserve her for her own sake I know that you will if you require any other spur, think that, in preserving her, you preserve me. Her faultless nature, one sum of perfections, is wrapt up in her affections if they were hurt, she would droop like an unwatered floweret, and the slightest injury they receive is a nipping frost to her.

It's the easiest thing in the world to get a laugh out of a fat woman fallin' down a sand bank, or a fat man bein' busted in the face with a custard pie. I don't want folks to laugh at my fat. I want 'em to forget that I am fat." "Do you know, Miss Grayling," said Bane, recounting this to Louise, "that is art. Gusty has the right idea. Many a floweret is born to blush unseen, the poet says.

But Christianity has seen the sun rising so high in the heavens that the humblest floweret, in the deepest valley, basks in its beams and opens to its light. 'We have all been made to drink into the one Spirit. Let me remind you too of how, from the usage of this book, as well as from the rest of the New Testament teaching, there rises the other thought of the abundance of the gift.

"Far on the prairies of the West, A lovely floweret grows; With glowing pen, each traveller oft Describes the Prairie Rose. "For ages there alone it grew, The prairie's gem and pride; But now the Rose of Sharon fair Is blooming at its side."

Petronella was a very tender floweret to have been reared amidst so much hardness and sorrow.

My Spring is gone, however, but it has left me that French floweret on my hands, which, in some moods, I would fain be rid of. Not valuing now the root whence it sprang; having found that it was of a sort which nothing but gold dust could manure, I have but half a liking to the blossom, especially when it looks so artificial as just now.