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Updated: June 12, 2025
I see now how unfit I was to be tried as they were; if I could not bear the loss of one moss-rose patiently for Christ's sake, how could I have borne fire and prison, and such like things?"
This belongs to Cheyne House, the property of Dr. Phené; the house cannot be seen from the street in summer-time. The oldest part is perhaps Tudor, and the latest in the style of Wren. One wall is decorated with fleurs-de-lys. In the garden was grown the original moss-rose, a freak of Nature, from which all other moss-roses have sprung.
"Ah, dear Holy Mother, how good you have been! and I am back again, you see, and I will work harder than ever because of all this joy that you have given me." And she took another moss-rose and changed it for that of the morning, which was faded, and said to Flamen. "Look she sends you this. Now do you know what I mean? One is more content when She is content."
There was only the moss-rose in her basket, and the red and white currants that had been given her for her dinner. She went along the twisting, many-colored, quaintly fashioned streets, till she came to the water-side.
The windows were heavily curtained, and the furniture covered with gay chintz of a white ground, with moss-rose buds thickly scattered over it between broad stripes of rose-pink. The same chintz was fluted all around the cornice of the room, making the walls look less high and stately; the doorways, also, were curtained with it.
Constance was engaged in cutting straws and ribbons to make a straw-frame for a water-colour drawing of a moss-rose which her pure-hearted son had given her as a birthday present. "Why what ?" she exclaimed. She said no more at the moment because she was sure, from the faces of her men, that the time was big with fearful events. "Take your satchel off," Mr. Povey ordered coldly.
He had only the geraniums and the moss-rose that Isa, had sent, and they were worse than nothing, for they pined in this twilight of the cell, and seemed to him smitten, like himself, with a living death.
I cherished this moss-rose a long time as a sacred talisman; I had reason to cherish it always, as the record of the first victory won over myself. It is now many years since I witnessed the celebration of the 'Fete Dieu'; but should I again feel in it the happy sensations of former days?
A laugh twice as mirthful as before interrupted her account of herself, while I could hear the tones of her friend evidently in expostulation. "Well, then, to be sure, you are provoking, but you really promise to follow me. Be it so; then give me that moss-rose. How you have fluttered me; now for it!"
I never need change of air here in my rose-bower. But come: what roses shall I pick for you?" "I must give Miss Aylmer her flowers, as she is practically my guest," said Trevor, coming forward at that moment. He picked a moss-rose bud and a few Scotch roses, made them into a posy, and gave them to Florence.
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