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The two young men then return, and having selected a member of the fairer group, they say to her: 'My mistress sent me unto thine, Wi' three young flowers baith fair and fine: The pink, the rose, and the gillyflower, And as they here do stand, Whilk will ye sink, whilk will ye swim, And whilk bring hame to land?
'I hope and trust not, my dear child. Perhaps we shall all meet by Easter -papa, and all; but you must not make too sure. There may be delays. Now I must see Halfpenny. I cannot talk to you any more, my Gillyflower, though I am leaving volumes unsaid. Gillian found Aunt Jane emerging from her room, and beset by her three future guests. 'Aunt Jane, may we bring Quiz?
Only a few flowers of autumn were visible, such as the fleabane and red gillyflower, autumn colchicums in the ravine, and under the beeches bracken and tufts of northern heather. At first Marouckla looked in vain for red apples. Then she espied a tree which grew at a great height, and from the branches of this hung the bright red fruit. Zaré ordered her to gather some quickly.
Magda's faint responsive smile was touched with that bitter knowledge which is the heritage of the woman who has been much loved for her beauty. "You're a woman, Gillyflower," she said. "And Michael is not only a man but an artist. Men don't want you when the bloom has been brushed off. And you know how Michael worships beauty! He's bound to being an artist."
Ah! how good it is to have learning. What would not my clients give for such a skin as hers! And I have many more, and greater than you would think, come to poor Cora's cottage. There was a countess here but yesterday to ask how to blanch the complexion of miladi her daughter, who is about to wed a young baronet, beautiful as Love. Bah! I might as well try to whiten a clove gillyflower!
"Put it on." Hardly conscious of what was happening, Gillian allowed herself to be helped into the coat. Suddenly recollection returned. "But your dance your dance, Magda? You've forgotten!" Magda shook her head. "No. It will be all right," she said soothingly. "Don't worry, Gillyflower. You've forgotten that Davilof is playing here to-night." "Antoine?" Gillian stared at her incredulously.
"Once, once I never told of it, and no one ever knew since I was alone, and it would have been boasting but once I fought single-handed with that great Christopher Little, whom I met by chance when I was out in the woods, and 'twas two years since, and I, with scarce my full growth, and he pleading for mercy at the second round, with an eye like a blackberry and a nose like a gillyflower, and and Harry, you might tell her of it, and say not where you got the news, if you thought it no harm.
"Homer, the graund Greek poet," she answered cheerily; "an' I'm to have anither o' Burns, as tall as Homer, when my daughter comes hame frae E'nbro'." If the shade of Homer keeps account of his earthly triumphs, I think he is proud of his place in that humble Scotchwoman's gillyflower garden, with his head under the drooping petals of granny's white mutches.
"A gillyflower," said Jack. "No; a measure." "How big a measure?" "Well, I'll ask Dorothy." So next morning they asked Dorothy, and she said: "I don't just know how much a gill is, but I've brought along a gold flask that holds a pint. That's more than a gill, I'm sure, and the Crooked Magician may measure it to suit himself. But the thing that's bothering us most, Jack, is to find the well."
My mother could put it up safely, but since I had left her it was always coming down, like flax from a distaff; and though I had in general a tolerably fresh and rosy complexion, heat outside and agitation within made my whole face, nose and all, instantly become the colour of a clove gillyflower.
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