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Updated: May 26, 2025
I have been living in terror lest it should go back underground in the shape of a black cat. However, thanks to the four-leaved clover, and the old woman of the heath, I am at home again." On hearing this rhodomontade, Amelia's mother burst into tears, for she thought the poor child was still raving with fever.
"And I have made up my mind partners now and partners always. You are incomparable. For three hundred years I have not met with your equal." But Amelia held the four-leaved clover above her head, and cried from her very heart "I want to go home!"
Now look at the leaves; each has three leaflets. If you can find a leaf with four of these leaflets, the country children will think you very fortunate, for a four-leaved Clover is said to bring good luck, just as a four-leaved Shamrock does in Ireland. A four-leaved Clover is, however, rather rare; I hope you may find one, but I am rather afraid you will not.
All the arches are round with a big splay on each side carved with four-leaved flowers. They are cusped at the top, and at the springing two smaller cusped arches are thrown across to a pinnacled shaft in the centre. The buttresses between them are covered with spiral grooves, and are all finished off with twisted pinnacles. Inside the pointed vault is much simpler than in the walks below.
I also am very careful," he added, "to catch the money-patches on my coffee." She laughed. After all, there was something old-fashioned about this man. "And I never think of plucking a five-leaf. That's bad luck." "The worst kind of bad luck. I remember, when I was a kid, I never played hooky without first hunting up my four-leaved amulet.
I can think of no more potent objection to such inclusive use of the term degenerate, than the fact that Lombroso includes, under the signs of degeneration, the enormous development of the cerebral speech-area in the case of an accomplished orator. If such evolutional spurts are to be deemed degenerative, the fate of the four-leaved clover is sealed.
I had no idea the Mary Meads were so damp." Then he pulled the blind down and went back into the room. As for poor Amelia, she found no four-leaved clover, and at cockcrow they all went underground. "We will dance on Hunch Hill to-morrow," said the dwarfs. All went as before; not a clover plant of any kind did Amelia see, and at cockcrow the revel broke up.
"Thee might think it sad to see one whose whole language has come to be just these words, but sometimes she will be glad and say, 'Has thee a four-leaved clover? and sometimes she will be ready to cry, and will say only the same words. But if thee were to say, 'Have a cup of coffee? she would but answer, 'Has thee a four-leaved clover? Does it not seem strange to thee, and sad?
A well-ventilated court-room is a four-leaved clover among court-rooms. Young men are constantly losing their health at the bar; lung diseases, dyspepsia, follow them up, gradually sapping their vitality. Some of the brightest ornaments of the profession have actually fallen dead as they stood pleading, victims of the fearful pressure of poisonous and heated air upon the excited brain.
"I wonder," said a third voice in the window, "does the nice old dame know what color has the clover? and does she remember fields of clover pink among the green?" "Has thee a four-leaved clover?" re-echoed the voice feebly from between the windows.
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