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He came to himself, at long intervals, to find that he had been looking about his room and wondering how it had formerly been furnished whether a settee in buttercup or petunia satin had stood under the farther window, whether from the centre moulding of the light lofty ceiling had depended a glimmering crystal chandelier, or where the tambour-frame or the picquet-table had stood.... No, it was no good; he had far better be frankly doing nothing than getting fruitlessly tired; and he decided that he would take a walk, but, chancing to sit down for a moment, dozed in his chair instead.
But to me there ain't any flower any handsomer than a big purple petunia." "I like them too and it doesn't matter if my dress does get dirty it'll wash. Now about Edith " "Why, Sylvia, you know how I hate to deny you anything, but I don't see how I can spare her! Here it is hayin'-time, the busiest time of the year, an' Austin an' Peter both gone.
"Just what I was myself thinking," said my wife. "My flower borders are all in confusion, and my petunia mounds so completely overgrown, that nobody would dream what they were meant for!"
Petunia, perched in lopsided fashion on a heap of mill-sides was, apparently, superintending. "There!" declared Jed, stacking a dozen sailors beside a dozen of what the order called "birdhouses medium knocked down." "There! that's the livin' last one, I do believe. Hi hum! Now we've got to box 'em, haven't we? . . . Ye-es, yes, yes, yes. . . . Hum. . . . "'Di de di de di de. . . ."
"It's not half so insane as a thing I read this morning beginning 'Petunia' and signed 'Best Boy." She tore out the leaf and handed it to Tommy. "There you are. Times, I think. Reply to Box so-and-so. I expect it will be about five shillings. Here's half a crown for my share." Tommy was holding the paper thoughtfully. His faced burned a deeper red. "Shall we really try it?" he said at last.
Isn't he a funny man, Mamma?" "He is indeed, Babbie." "Yes. Petunia and I think he's he's perfectly scrushe-aking. 'Twas awful nice of him to fix our clock, wasn't it, Mamma." "Yes, dear." "Yes. And I know why he did it; he told me. 'Twas on Petunia's account. He said not to let her know it but he'd taken consider'ble of a shine to her. I think he's taken a shine to me, don't you, Mamma?"
Jed argued that Petunia must on no account be strung higher than she was and consented to dine at the Hunniwells'. The day before Thanksgiving brought another visitor to the windmill shop, one as welcome as he was unexpected. Jed, hearing the door to the stock room open, shouted "Come in" from his seat at the workbench in the inner room.
By ability to stand alone, I do not mean is every branchlet stiff as if galvanized, like a balsam, for this is by no means pretty, but is the plant so constructed that it can languish gracefully, petunia fashion, and not fall over stark and prone like an uprooted castor bean.
"There's going to be lady-slippers over there," Miss Ainslie went on, "and sweet william. The porch is always covered with morning-glories I think they're beautiful and in that large bed I've planted poppies, snap-dragon, and marigolds. This round one is full of larkspur and bachelor's buttons. I have phlox and petunias, too did you ever see a petunia seed?" Ruth shook her head.
I didn't look at Polk, but Cousin Martha's face was lovely, as she told me to run quickly. I found him on the front porch, smoking his pipe alone, while the two little relics, whom he had had left to dine with him, were taking their two respective naps. Our dinner was late on account of the initiation of Petunia, and he had finished before we began.
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