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It has beautiful narrow garden strips in front, solid patches of colour in sweet gillyflower bushes, from which the kindly housewife plucked a nosegay for us. Her white columbines she calls 'granny's mutches'; and indeed they are not unlike those fresh white caps.
For me, I find it worth visiting at least twice a year: in spring when the Poet's Narcissus flowers in great clumps under the north hedge, and the columbines grow breast-high pink, blue, and blood-red; and again in autumn, for the sake of an apple which we call the gillyflower small and shy, but of incomparable flavour and for a gentle melancholy which haunts the spot like yes, like a human face, and with faint companionable smiles and murmurs of dead-and-gone laughter.
The covering of its stem, the first tender leaves, the development of the bud, the expansion of the flower each bewildering in its consummate propriety unfolded, in their turn, a system of laws in simplicity transcendent. By the aid of a microscope, a 'gillyflower' was seen protecting a chrysalis.
The maiden must choose one of the flowers named, on which she passes some approving epithet, adding, at the same time, a disapproving rejection of the other two, as in the following terms: 'I will sink the pink, swim the rose, and bring hame the gillyflower to land. The young men then disclose the names of the parties upon whom they had fixed those appellations respectively, when it may chance she has slighted the person to whom she is most attached, and contrariwise."
An' to think as he might ha' Mary Burge, an' be took partners, an' be a big man wi' workmen under him, like Mester Burge Dolly's told me so o'er and o'er again if it warna as he's set's heart on that bit of a wench, as is o' no more use nor the gillyflower on the wall. An' he so wise at bookin' an' figurin', an' not to know no better nor that!"
There was something grand in the quiet of the face, growing old with the depth of sadness and endurance subdued in it: the kindly smile over all. I had brought the smile there. But it would not be for long: and I remember how the stalk of gillyflower I held snapped in my hand, and its spicy odor made me throw it down. I have loathed it ever since.
Costell: "I'll get the seed of that mottled gillyflower from my mother as soon as possible. Perhaps you'll let me bring it up myself?" "Do," she said. "Come again, whether you get the seed or not." After they had started, Mr. Costell said: "I'm glad you asked that. Mrs. Costell doesn't take kindly to many of the men who are in politics with me, but she liked you, I could see."
How much poorer the world would have been if he had not been so in regard not only to human beings but to the very flowers if he had not been able to tell the difference between fennel and fumitory, between the violet and the gillyflower! Horse-racing or, at least, betting is one of the few crafts that are looked down on by practically everybody who does not take part in it.
There were heaps and heaps of ponies some of them wild, unbroken colts which had been brought straight off the Moor. They were rearing and plunging all over the place. I loved them! By the way, I'm gong to learn riding, Gillyflower. Mr. Storran has offered to teach me. He says he has a nice quiet mare I could start on." A small frown puckered Gillian's brows. "Do you think Mrs.
"Not of course at all!" replied Francie, who used a particularly expensive essence of gillyflower herself. "I can't think what we are about," said Aunt Juley, raising her hands, "talking of such things!" "Was she divorced?" asked Imogen from the door. "Certainly not," cried Aunt Juley; "that is certainly not." A sound was heard over by the far door. Timothy had re-entered the back drawing-room.
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