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"Rosebud, if a Cowslip opens three leaves in one day and four the next, how many rosy leaves will there be when the whole flower has bloomed?" "Seven," sang the gay little Elf. "Harebell, if a silkworm spin one yard of Fairy cloth in an hour, how many will it spin in a day?" "Twelve," said the Fairy child. "Primrose, where lies Violet Island?" "In the Lake of Ripples."
Her brow was calm and pure as the moon, her lips red as a rosebud, and so eloquent that her voice sounded like a shower of pearls. But wonderful beyond compare was the expressive beauty of her eyes, for if she looked at you kindly you seemed to float in a sea of joy, if angrily it made you numb with fear, and you were instantly changed into a block of ice.
She's as happy as the day while it lasts, lifts her head like a rosebud in the sun " "Then drops it, I suppose, like a rose-leaf in the mud." Ross laughed again. "Yes, it's a fact, old Jeremiah has been at you, Philip. Poor little Kitty " "Keep the girl's name out of it, if you please." Ross gave a long whistle. "I was only saying the poor little woman "
A couple of pimples one near the right-hand corner of her rosebud mouth, and another on the left-hand side of her tip-tilted nose marred her baby face. At the end of another six months the men called her plump, and the women fat. Her walk was degenerating into a waddle; stairs caused her to grunt.
Her lips, which usually wore a peculiarly proud and fearless curve, quivered, and were losing the brilliant rosebud redness which mostly characterised them.
Behind the column, eastward, dip the sheltered valleys of the Rosebud and the breaks of the Tongue among the Cheetish Mountains; and there, not fifty miles away as the crow flies, the soldiers of the Gray Fox, over two thousand strong, are camped, awaiting reinforcements before renewing the attempt to advance upon these lurking bands of Sitting Bull.
In some happier clime the Rosebud may revive again with all the dewdrops in its bosom. I have sometimes produced a singular and not unpleasing effect, so far as my own mind was concerned, by imagining a train of incidents in which the spirit and mechanism of the faëry legend should be combined with the characters and manners of familiar life.
Kate, for one, enjoyed it keenly, for little Gerard was put in her lap, and she doted on him; and it was like a cherub carried by a little angel, or a rosebud lying in the cup of a lily. So the vulgar jeered; and asked Luke how a thistle tasted, and if his mistress could not afford one with four legs, etc. Luke did not mind these jeers; but Kate minded them for him.
Something had evidently happened to displease him, and she waited a little anxiously half hoping for, half dreading her friend's departure. "I trust you'll go through the ceremony more gracefully than Perry did," Gerty was saying with a teasing merriment, while she broke a white rosebud from the vase of flowers and fastened it in his coat.
There, now you are angry because I said simpleton! I didn't mean simpleton, I meant misguided misguided rosebud! That's it run off, he continued in a raised voice, as Anne made towards the garden door. 'But I'll have you yet. Much reason you have to be too proud to stay with me. But it won't last long; I shall marry you, madam, if I choose, as you'll see.
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