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Updated: June 14, 2025
They can talk of nothing but orange-blossom and rice. Alice, dear, awaken. Ah, did you have strange dreams, poor girl dream that you were dead! Indeed, it was a dream an evil dream.
No young men stroll through the bazaar in bright caftans, with roses and jasmine behind their ears, no pedlars offer lemonade and sweetmeats and golden-fritters, no flower-sellers pursue one with tight bunches of orange-blossom and little pink roses. The well-to-do ride by in white, and the rest of the population goes mournfully in earth-color.
An' mebbe," he continued, with a shrewd upward glance at his master's face "when the roses come, there'll be a bit of orange-blossom to keep 'em company " John started, and then his kind smile, so warm and sunny and sweet, shone like a beam of light itself across his features. "What, Bainton!" he said "So you know all about it already!" Bainton began to chuckle irrepressibly.
I took my niece for a sail in the bay, and after we had enjoyed one of those delicious evenings which I think can be found nowhere else sailing on a mirror silvered by the moon, over which float the odours of the jasmine, the orange-blossom, the pomegranates, the aloes, and all the scented flowers which grow along the coasts we returned to our lodging, and I asked Annette what had become of Marcoline.
Did you seriously suppose that I I was going through all the orange-blossom rigmarole, voice that breathed o'er Eden, fully choral, red carpet on the pavement, flowers, photographers, vicar, vestry, Daily Picture, reception, congratulations, rice, old shoes, going-away dress, 'Be kind to her, Ozzie. Not much! And I don't think. They say that girls love it and insist on it.
Only, she had been married on the very morning of those boastful words by license at a registry-office to Francis Tudor. The strange admixture of orange-blossom and registry-office was not the only strange thing about the wedding.
It's no business of yours, Polycarp, but I may tell you that this feminine trait, this almost childish weakness, in a woman of so superb and powerful a character, simply enchanted me. I obtained the orange-blossom. Then you will remember I sent for you, Polycarp, made my will, and accompanied you to my safe in your private vault, in order to deposit there some secret instructions.
At other times she thought of them as a bridal wreath, purer than the purest orange-blossom that ever decked a bride. Once, too this was when she was nearing the end of the voyage there came to her a magic whiff of wet bog-myrtle that made her fancy that she must be a bride indeed.
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