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"Three of those girls are married and living in town." "Yes, I know," said I. "At least I know Camellia and Althea are. Who else? Azalea lives across the river, doesn't she?" "Yes. You haven't heard of the latest matrimonial alliance, then?" The Skeptic chuckled. Hepatica looked at him, and he looked at her, and then they both looked at me.
Some one, for instance, must have thought this flower long ago' he stooped and picked a blue hepatica at their feet 'or it couldn't be growing here now. Jimbo accepted the statement with his usual gravity. 'Then I shall always think enormous and tremendous things powerful locomotives, like that and and 'The best is to think kind little sweet things about other people, suggested the other.
Hepatica would not tell me what she meant to have for her dinner, but on the appointed day shut herself up in her kitchen with a young woman whom she had engaged, and would allow me only to set her table for her. As I laid the required number of forks and spoons I realized that she meant to be true to her word and serve a quite simple dinner. For this I was thankful.
The Promoter at my left occupied himself with Hepatica much of the time Hepatica had never looked lovelier than to-night, though her simple, white evening frock was not cut half so low as Althea's pink, embroidered one, nor cost half so much as my plain pale-gray. Althea devoted herself to the Philosopher she and the Skeptic had never got on very well.
This, in itself, of course, was nothing; but taken in connection with The Skeptic leaned forward again. "What'll you wager I couldn't get up a flirtation with her to-night, if I happened to sit next her?" he challenged in a whisper. "Don!" murmured Hepatica; but she smiled. "I'm not anywhere near his age," continued the Skeptic.
"It's a curious fact," said the Skeptic, stirring a cup of yellow-brown coffee with which his wife had just presented him, "as Hepatica and I discovered only the other day, that three of those girls who visited you that summer four years ago, when she and I were avoiding each other " "You avoiding!" I interpolated. "Well I was trying to avoid being avoided by her," he explained.
Under the shade of the pines the white stars of the hepatica glistened and the pale anemones were coming into bloom. Partridge-berries glowed red under their glossy leaves, and clumps of violets sweetened the air. Squirrels chattered, woodpeckers tapped, thrushes sang; but Stephen was blind and deaf to all the sweet harbingers of spring.
Lucia was serene and beaming with quiet happiness, like a blue hepatica blossom, a little bashful, but responding archly and merrily, and her fine clear eyes dimmed by only the slightest suspicion of a tear. She saw nothing ahead of us but bliss, a welcome happiness, a regular God-pleasing life. For me it was not hard to sustain my part in this beautiful scene.
The Philosopher and I took it quite in good part, for nothing could be more settled than the unimpassioned character of our old friendship as there could be nothing more satisfactory. We had not more than taken our seats when the Skeptic leaned past Hepatica to call my attention to two people who had come down the aisle and were finding their places just across it and in the row ahead of us.
The flowers are one of the four called cordial flowers: the only quality they have that can entitle them to this appellation, is, that they moderately cool and soften, without offending the palate or stomach; and thus in warm climates, or in hot diseases, may in some measure refresh the patient. ANEMONE Hepatica. HEPATICA. The Leaves.
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