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Updated: May 28, 2025
The constant strain on the nerves was becoming very wearing, and I knew very well that on the morrow I should need bleeding and mallows tea. Hardly was I settled and comfortable when I heard that dreadful bell again. "This is the day of the resurrection indeed," cried Mariuccia frantically from the kitchen. And she hurried to the door.
But most serious of all was the general, for he had seen that which brought a flush to his cheeks and a frown to his brow. "I say, Stephen," said he to his galloper, "those Mallows seem a trifle jumpy. The right flank company bulged a bit when the niggers showed on the hill." "Youngest troops in the square, sir," murmured the aide, looking at them critically through his eye-glass.
"You noisy chatterbox!" cried the man. "The impetus of coming down the curves of the hill keeps you talking all the way across this muck bed to the lake. With small work I can make you a thing of beauty. A few bushes grubbed, a little deepening where you spread too much, and some more mallows along the banks will do the trick. I must attend to you soon."
Almost every day he has beside the mallows in the boxes a white mug with flowers in it, nasturtiums, perhaps, or a few pinks. This he sets carefully in shade of the thickest mallows; and this I have often seen him hold down tenderly, for the little ones to see and to smell.
The health-giving properties of various plants have long been in the highest repute, and have given rise to numerous well-known proverbs, which are still heard in many a home. Thus old Gerarde, describing the virtues of the mallow, tells us: "If that of health you have any special care, Use French mallows, that to the body wholesome are." Then there is the time-honoured adage which says that:
Being an ardent champion of the short-service system, he took particular care to work with veteran first battalions, and his little force was the compressed essence of an army corps. The left front of the square was formed by four companies of the Royal Wessex, and the right by four of the Royal Mallows. On either side the other halves of the same regiments marched in quarter column of companies.
The Harvester arose, and going to the lake, he cut an arm load of big, pink mallows, covered each mound with fresh flowers, whistled to the dog, and went to his work. Many things had accumulated, and he cleaned the barn, carried herbs from the dry-house to the store-room, and put everything into shape. Close noon the next day he went to Onabasha, and was gone three hours.
For the living-room, she used wild ragged robins in the blue bowl, and on one end of the mantel set a pitcher of saffron and on the other arrowhead lilies. For her room, she selected big, blushy mallows that grew all along Singing Water and around the lake. "Isn't that slightly peculiar?" questioned the Harvester. "Take a peep," said the Girl, opening her door.
The Mallows were all his Italy, but it was in a measure for Italy he liked them. His one worry was that Lance to which they had shortened his godson was, in spite of a public school, perhaps a shade too Italian.
There should have been discouragement in the coolness of the glance that she turned upon him, but Jase had the blessing of self-confidence. "Ye war thar yerself ye ought ter know," said Alexander curtly. Then she added, "An' don't call me Aleck my name's Alexander." Jase Mallows reddened to his temples.
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