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Updated: September 9, 2025
Then through the door, left open, behind her, the sound of that chorus: "Vive-la, vive-la, vive-la ve!" came in and jolted her nerves unbearably. Tearing the gardenia from her breast, she flung it on to his upturned face. "Jimmy!" Fort struggled up, and stared at her. His face was comic from bewilderment, and she broke into a little nervous laugh.
Francey, what have you been doing with yourself? And you'd have tried to give me a leg up, if it only ran to buying a gardenia for old times' sake." He suspected her of poking fun at him. And yet there was that subtle underlying seriousness about her and a frank, disarming kindliness. "You think I'm down on my luck," he retorted, "and so anybody has a right to butt in." "Not a right.
Last of all came the clerk, osseous, perfumed, a gardenia in the lapel of his frock coat, terribly excited, and hurrying about on tiptoe, saying "Sh! Sh!" as a matter of principle. Jadwin wore a new frock coat and a resplendent Ascot scarf, which Mr. She could guess that his teeth were clenched.
Her head was small and her face small, and short, and oval, with no wonderfully chiseled features, only the skin was quite exceptional in its white purity not the purity of milk, but the purity of rich, white velvet, or a gardenia petal.
The grass houses of the natives cluster along the waters' edge, or in lanes dark with mangoes and bananas, and fragrant with gardenia fringing the cane-fields.
George's had said to her, "I will give you L10 for that ticket of yours!" and when she refused he said, "I will give you ANYTHING YOU LIKE! I must see Margot Tennant married!" I asked her what sort of a man he was. She answered, "Oh! he was a real gentleman, ma'am! I know a gentleman when I see him; he had a gardenia in his buttonhole, but he didn't get my ticket!"
So orders were given for a huge entertainment in the Arta Gardens just outside Kâbul. They were the most beautiful gardens, not close cropped and orderly like English gardens, but with wide, bare, marble-paved walks and squares, big marble-stepped tanks full of waterlilies, all set in tangles of widespread roses and jasmine and gardenia.
She held in her hand an enormous bouquet, composed of the rarest flowers of India: the stephanotis and the gardenia mingled the dead white of their blossoms with the purple hibiscus and Java amaryllis.
The slender columns supporting the horse-shoe arches were trained with crimson passion-flower and bougainvillia, while orange and gardenia blossom scented the air, and in the midst of a pavement of mosaic marbles was a fountain, tinkling coolness to the air which was already heated enough to make it impossible to cross the court without protection from the sunshine even at nine o'clock in the morning.
And now what will you wear in your button-hole a gardenia, or some violets? Ruth will be down in a minute, and you must look your prettiest." But if the frog pond, damp porch and old-fashioned garden had come as a surprise, what shall I say of the rest of Miss Felicia's house which I am now about to inspect under Peter's guidance. "Here, come along," he cried, slipping his arm through mine.
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