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In the flower-beds are irregular clumps of marvel of Peru, some three feet high, of varied coloured blossom, coming up irregularly in wild luxuriance. The moss-rose, too, is conspicuous, with its heavy odour; while the edging, a foot wide, is formed by thousands of bulbs of the Narcissus poeticus, massed together like packed figs; these, too, give out a pleasant perfume.
Hargrave reappeared at the window with a beautiful moss-rose in his hand. ‘Here, Esther, I’ve brought you the rose,’ said he, extending it towards her. ‘Give it her yourself, you blockhead!’ cried she, recoiling with a spring from between us. ‘Mrs. Huntingdon would rather receive it from you,’ replied he, in a very serious tone, but lowering his voice that his mother might not hear.
So did the white camellia and the moss-rose buds which she had taken out of my bouquet, and fastened at her waist. What I was not prepared for, however, was her cap. I had forgotten that your Parisian grisette would no more dream of wearing a bonnet than of crowning her head with feathers and adorning her countenance with war-paint.
Professor Schmidt's house was warmly recommended, and was chosen for my home. I set out for my new abode full of the best resolutions. But at Magdeburg I saw in a show window a particularly tasteful bonnet trimmed with lilies of the valley and moss-rose buds. The sight brought Clara's face framed in it vividly be fore my eyes, and drew me into the shop.
The garden was Dobbin's pride; and the pride of the garden was a moss-rose tree, which was the peculiar treasure of the labourer's little crippled son, who watched it from the window, and whenever he was well enough, crept out to water it, and pick off any stray snail which had ventured to climb up its rich brown leaves.
As it was, he kept a passing but melancholy surveillance of them, and was indeed a better spy of the actions of the intruders than any I could have employed. One day, to my astonishment, he brought me a moss-rose bud from a bush which had been trained against a column of the veranda.
Some one has said that no one can write real poetry until he has known the sting of unhappiness; and sure it is that beauty ever lacks that moss-rose finish that tender melancholy throws about it, until it has known what sorrow is.
What! his moss-rose Linda as often in a fond moment he named her his pretty Linda, thought of in connection with this vulgar, cheating storekeeper's vulgar son? 'Sir, how dare you? were all the words his lips framed, when Robert, beholding the scene from the other end of the board, came to the rescue. 'The fellow has been drinking, was the most charitable construction Mr.
Her form was simply perfect; her breath was like the eglantine, and her cheek wore the morning blush of the moss-rose. She was a perfect Cleopatra, all but the royal crown, and that was supplied with plumes the royal crown of the Indian Queen of the Poorest.
The good folks in the market place watched her a little anxiously; they thought ill of that little moss-rose that every day found its way to one wearer only; but after all they did not see much, and the neighbors nothing at all.
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