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She slipped it off and held it out, showing a bruise across the back of her hand. "Allah!" whispered the man, "that I should mark thee thus and yet, in love in love!" He took the ring, of which the dull-gold setting held an emerald in the form of a scarab with heartshaped base. The fortune-teller turned it over in the palm of his hand, then held it out. "Nay, this I cannot take.
The world is full of beautiful spots, but I doubt if any of them ever were prettier than that. Father called it swale. We didn't sink deep, but all summer there was water standing there. The grass was long and very sweet, there were ferns and a few calamus flowers, and there must have been an acre of cowslips cowslips with big-veined, heartshaped, green leaves, and large pale gold flowers.
We stood on one end and held the other, using the slippery inside of the bark for the outside, and thus coasting down long hills with remarkable speed. The spinning of tops was one of the all-absorbing winter sports. We made our tops heartshaped of wood, horn or bone. We whipped them with a long thong of buckskin.
Its erect, square, branching stems, from 18 to 36 inches tall, bear notched oval or heartshaped leaves, whitish below, and during late summer terminal clusters of white flowers in small heads, far apart below, but crowded close above. The fruits are small, brown, ovoid, smooth and with three clearly defined angles. An ounce contains about 3,400 seeds. Viability lasts for five years. Cultivation.
Des Esseintes holding a list in his hands, verified each one of his purchases. The gardeners from their wagons brought a collection of caladiums which sustained enormous heartshaped leaves on turgid hairy stalks; while preserving an air of relationship with its neighbor, no one leaf repeated the same pattern. Others were equally extraordinary.
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