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I raised the leaves by one corner, and like scent from a pot-pourri jar there floated out a brief vision of blues and reds, telling of pictures, and pictures all highly coloured! Here was the right sort of thing at last, and my afternoon would not be entirely wasted. I inclined an ear to the door by which I had entered.
But the rose, the trusting little earth-born rose, that must stay all her life rooted in one spot till some nightingale comes to choose her some nightingale whose song maybe has been inspired and perfected by a hundred other roses, which are at the moment pot-pourri ah, the shy bosom-song of the rose ... Here the Sphinx paused, and added abruptly 'Well there is no nightingale worthy to hear it!
Offer a big enough rent so they'll have to accept so they'd get more out of us than if they opened up. Then they can't buy back from Henry and he's over a thousand short. I know he is. And if you don't do it " His gesture was dramatic. Mirabelle's expression, as she wiped her eyes, was a pot-pourri of sentiments. "Humph! Can't say I like the idea much, kind of too tricky." Mr.
Old mahogany, pot-pourri, convivial song, wit, grace Peer saw it all in his mind's eye, and again and again he had to give vent to his feelings by seizing Merle and embracing her. "Oh, but look here, Merle you know, this is a fairy-tale." They passed out into the old neglected garden with its grass-grown paths and well-filled carp-ponds and tumble-down pavilions.
In one corner of the walls was a bracket, holding an Indian jar filled with pot-pourri; and that and the climbing honeysuckle outside the open window scented the room more exquisitely than any toilette perfumes. Hamley lying on the sofa. 'Shall we stay up here, m dear? I think it is pleasanter than down below; and then I shall not have to come upstairs again at dressing- time.
"Oh, but Granny, they're not midge-bites; they're only from my hat!" "It doesn't matter, darling; it takes away anything like that." And he thought: 'Mother is really wonderful! At the house the car had already disgorged their luggage. Only one man, but he absolutely the butler, awaited them, and they entered, at once conscious of Clara's special pot-pourri.
"Though it must at least be more interesting than receiving at home, for we shall see other people's houses, and the way they arrange their drawing-rooms. I do love studying strange drawing-rooms!" said Ruth meditatively. "In country houses they ought to be charming all chintzy and smelling of pot-pourri! All the same, Mollie, I'm disappointed in the neighbours.
Griselda felt her way as best she could, past the Chinese cabinet and the pot-pourri jar, till she got to the ante-room door. It was open, and now, knowing her way better, she hurried in. But what was the use? All was silent, save the tick-tick of the cuckoo clock in the corner. Oh, if only the cuckoo would come out and call the hour as usual, what a weight would be lifted off Griselda's heart!
Suddenly he stayed his steps by a half-moon table on which stood a large Chinese bowl filled with pot-pourri; and into this he plunged his hands, seeming to lave them in the dry rose-leaves. Catherine felt no surprise, she was so used to his strange ways; and more than once he had hidden things magpie fashion in that great bowl.
That shows what danger means. I alone was mounted, riding the old pony I had commandeered the day before; my men were on foot and ran pantingly alongside. We were so keen! For half a mile or so we met occasional detachments of European troops, an odd enough pot-pourri of armed men such as few people ever witness.
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