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Updated: May 26, 2025
Upon the ferns before us were laid several layers of broad, thick "pooroo" leaves; lapping over, one upon the other. And upon these were placed, side by side, newly-plucked banana leaves, at least two yards in length, and very wide; the stalks were withdrawn so as to make them lie flat. This green cloth was set out and garnished in the manner following:
She was taking the morning air, and with her smiling face seemed drinking in its balmy freshness. "'You look ill, said she, with a pitying glance. 'See what I have brought for you, and she held forth a newly-plucked bouquet of flowers. "I took the proffered blossoms hurriedly, dreading to meet her clear eye, which I felt must surely read my guilt.
I wished I had not listened; all my determinations were completely routed and as I opened the door I felt my heart beating almost audibly against my side. In a subdued half-light tempered through the rose-coloured curtains, with a small sevres cup of newly-plucked moss-roses upon the table sat, or rather leaned, Emily Bingham, her face buried in her hands as I entered.
Decked with dyed tappas, and looped with garlands of newly-plucked flowers, from which, at every step, the fragrant petals were blown; with a sumptuous, elastic motion the gay sedan came on; leaving behind it a long, rosy wake of fluttering leaves and odors. Drawing near, it revealed a slender, enervate youth, of pallid beauty, reclining upon a crimson mat, near the festooned arch of the bower.
When a gentleman, known to possess no more than tenpence, and with a predilection to drink, leaves the shelter of a small copse; let us say, at seven o'clock, and reappears, rather breathless, forty minutes later with a newly-plucked fowl or even with a fowl not plucked at all, and still warm, or with half a dozen eggs; and, in addition, issues out again later in the evening and returns with a strong smell of spirits and a watery eye it seems a little doubtful as to whether he has been scrupulously honest.
In early life illness is a luxury, and draws out toward the sufferer curious and delicious tendernesses, which are felt to be a full over-payment of pain and weakness; then there is the pleasant period of convalescence, when one tastes a core and marrow of delight in meats, drinks, sleep, silence; the bunch of newly-plucked flowers on the table, the sedulous attentions and patient forbearance of nurses and friends.
I wished I had not listened; all my determinations were completely routed and as I opened the door I felt my heart beating almost audibly against my side. In a subdued half-light tempered through the rose-coloured curtains, with a small sevres cup of newly-plucked moss-roses upon the table sat, or rather leaned, Emily Bingham, her face buried in her hands as I entered.
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