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Updated: July 17, 2025
There was no straight avenue, but a broad smooth carriage road curved gently up a hillside, and on both margins of the graveled way, ancient elm trees stood at regular intervals, throwing their boughs across, to unite in lifting the superb groined arches, whose fine tracery of sinuous lines were here and there concealed by clustering mistletoe and gray lichen masses and ornamented with bosses of velvet moss; while the venerable columnar trunks were now and then wreathed with poison-oak vines, where red trumpet flowers insolently blared defiance to the waxen pearls of encroaching mistletoe.
"'Why, yes, said she, innocently: 'they are both vegetable substances. "Abel at first looked rather foolish, but quickly recovering herself, said, "'All vegetable substances are not proper for food: you would not taste the poison-oak, or sit under the upas-tree of Java. "'Well, Abel, Eunice rejoined, 'how are we to distinguish what is best for us?
Now I expect the best!" She spoke to Kate, and looked at Nick. "But tell me what poison-oak can do." Nick shivered. For an instant, a picture of that adored young face hideously disfigured turned him sick. And even her little white hands no, it did not bear thinking of! But he controlled himself and tried to speak coolly.
Silverado is now a quite impossible place for squatting. When I first tried to enter, I found it so given over to poison-oak and rattlesnakes that I did not care to pursue my investigations very far.
The last is no great inconvenience at home; but here in California it is a matter of some moment. For in all woods and by every wayside there prospers an abominable shrub or weed, called poison-oak, whose very neighbourhood is venomous to some, and whose actual touch is avoided by the most impervious.
If that woman has told him how I sent her out alone, and how I lied about his plans being changed, and the men he had to meet, then he must guess. They're sure to compare notes, and he'll suspect about the poison-oak." The ice of despair was a frozen dagger in her breast. Even before the chance came for a talk with Simeon Harp she made up her mind what to do.
Luckily there were people who could touch poison-oak and suffer no harm. Nick told Angela he "felt in his bones" that no evil thing could have power over her. Soon, almost before she could have believed it possible, the messenger arrived with a strange assortment of packets from the chemist. Nick shouted that all was ready, and she went back to the sitting-room, her hands dripping ammonia.
The sombre green of pines, and the equally dark though glossy foliage of oaks, were beautifully enlivened by lighter greens, and by the brilliant hues of the sassafras-tree. Here climbed in tantalizing beauty tempting as insidious vice, which attracts but to destroy the poison-oak vine.
He flung the words at her, and Angela, bewildered and amazed, threw down the coloured leaves as if a tarantula hid among them. "Have you got any ammonia?" Nick asked sharply. "Yes." "Go wash your hands in it while I use your telephone. Don't be frightened, but that's poison-oak, and I want to prevent it from hurting you." "Can it kill me?" Her face quivered. "No.
"'Oh, said Eunice, 'we must send for some oil and vinegar! This lettuce is very nice. "'Oil and vinegar? exclaimed Abel. "'Why, yes, said she, innocently: 'they are both vegetable substances. "Abel at first looked rather foolish, but quickly recovering himself, said "'All vegetable substances are not proper for food: you would not taste the poison-oak, or sit under the upas-tree of Java.
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