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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Your granny had them, too, when she was a girl." There was a long pause. Mercy's eyes were half-glazed. But her vision was inward now. "The mignonette will be growin' in the gardens, Bobby," she murmured. "Yes, Bobby, and the heart's-ease," said Honor, softly. "We lived in the country, you know, Bobby." "There is flowers in the country," Bobby declared gravely. "Yes, and trees," said Honor.
The people who enter the house do not leave it again at will, and some of them stay there for the rest of their life, for the house is a prison. In the days of King Oscar I, the mountain was not green. On the contrary, it was grey and cold, for neither moss nor heart's-ease would grow there, although these plants generally thrive on the bare rock.
It was in the afternoon of the last day of May, and Hallam seemed to have put on a more radiant beauty for the occasion. The sun was so bright, the park so green, the garden so sweet and balmy. Heart's-ease were every-where, honeysuckles filled the air, and in the wood behind, the blackbirds whistled, and the chaffinches and tomtits kept up a merry, musical chattering.
He didn't take her home, for he saw that what clothes she had were the very finest, made as delicately, with seams like the hair-strokes on that heart's-ease there; and he concluded that he couldn't bring her up as she ought to be.
She handed her a thin, long, morocco-covered notebook, which opened of itself, as she laid it in the young lady's hand, at a place where the leaves were separated by a withered flower. It was a long-dried mountain heart's-ease, and, despite her efforts, her cheeks reddened consciously. The writing on the pages was in verse and she recognized the bold, free style at a glance.
Here are verbenas, poppies, lavender and marigolds, sweet-william, hollyhocks and columbine, phlox, and larkspur, and meadowsweet, and heart's-ease, just as they were when Thomasine Musgrave, Matocton's first châtelaine, was wont to tend them; and of all floral parvenus the gardens are innocent. Box-hedges mark the walkways.
"Why, you little goose, you don't think I am going to wear it like this. No. I thought of having down a wreath and bouquet from Foster's of violets and heart's-ease the bosom and sleeves covered with blond, you know, and caught up here and there with a small bunch of the flowers. Then, in the center heart's-ease of the bosom, I meant to have had two of my largest diamonds set hush!"
So she could only sit mourning for the Charlie that might have been while watching the Charlie that was with an ache in her heart which found no relief till, putting her hands there as if to ease the pain, they touched the pansies, faded but still showing gold among the somber purple, and then two great tears dropped on them as she sighed: "Ah, me! I do need heart's-ease sooner than I thought!"
"Across there," he said, pointing toward the direction of Bosekop. "There is a stream under the trees that laughs to itself all day you know it, mistress? And the poppies are in the field as you go and by the banks there are the heart's-ease flowers we cannot have too many of them! Shall we go?"
Where the ground was comparatively bare of grass, it was studded with the yellow blossoms of wild heart's-ease, and amongst some stunted alder-trees Godfrey found a dwarf rose already in bud, and wild onions and wild rhubarb in flower. Then he came upon a broad expanse of a shrub that looked to him like a rhododendron, with a flower with a strong aromatic scent.
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