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He noticed the glance she gave him had nothing in it but coldness and annoyance. "You do not tell me you are pleased to see me, Pluma, and yet you have promised to be my wife." She stood perfectly still leaning against an oleander-tree. "Why don't you speak to me, Pluma?" he cried. "By Heaven! I am almost beginning to mistrust you.
She was holding her robe together with one hand, gathering it close round her ankles to give herself an air of greater slimness. Over her quaint little head, her round umbrella with its thousand ribs threw a great halo of blue and red, edged with black, and an oleander-tree full of flowers, growing among the stones of the bridge, spread its glory beside her, bathed, like herself, in the sunshine.
Then, all heated and in flannels as he was, he accompanied Father Angelo to the launch. Susanna, Miss Sandus, a white peacock, and six ring-doves were taking refreshments in the garden, in the shade of an oleander-tree. There were cakes, figs, and lemonade, grains of dried maize, and plenty of good succulent hemp-seed.
As you pass along the streets you get a peep now and then of picturesque interior courtyards, seen through the wide-arched doorways. These courts are mostly surrounded by an open arcade. Generally in the centre of each is set a large green tub holding an oleander-tree. This gives rather an Oriental appearance to these interiors. The East and West are here mixed up together most curiously.
She was holding her robe together with one hand, gathering it close round her ankles to give herself an air of greater slimness. Over her quaint little head, her round umbrella with its thousand ribs threw a great halo of blue and red, edged with black, and an oleander-tree full of flowers, growing among the stones of the bridge, spread its glory beside her, bathed, like herself, in the sunshine.
Thus will I accept your gifts, and give you thanks for them! Come, Osman Bardissi!" she continued in louder tones, beckoning to the bey, who stood without in the shade of an oleander-tree "come and see the magnificent presents which L'Elfi Bey has brought me from England!" L'Elfi's countenance darkened, and he recoiled a step almost in anger. "What! Osman Bey is here?" "And why not?
"If I could only get behind the oleander-tree, I might hear what they are saying." He pushed his way through the crowd, and, just as he had reached the desired spot, Madeleine arose, and, taking the arm of a bejewelled Persian, walked away. At the same moment Raoul went into the card-room, and whispered a few words to De Clameran. "There they go," muttered the clown.
It was no gracious woman bending there that she saw, but a scene where the very air infused with sunlight seemed to glow, the house with its wide veranda veiled in vines, and above it towering the rosy cloud of an oleander-tree, behind it the far azure strip of the bay, before it the long low line of sandy beach where the waters of the Gulf forever swung their silver tides with a sullen roar, for the place was one of those islands that make the perpetual fortifications of the Texan coast.
And there, at the end of the path, in the shade of an oleander-tree, with her back towards him, stood a young woman a young woman in a pearl-grey frock, and a garden-hat, beneath which one could see that her hair was dark.
She began to speak, then she hesitated, and evidently said something which she had not intended. "How pretty that is!" she said, pointing to a great oleander-tree in flower, which was Aunt Maria's pride. "Yes, I think it is pretty." "Lovely. The very prettiest one I ever saw."
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