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Such an orchard as surely may only be found in Kent, where great apple-trees, gnarled, and knotted, shot out huge branches that seemed to twist, and writhe; where were stately pear trees; where peaches, and apricots, ripened against time-worn walls whose red bricks still glowed rosily for all their years; where the air was sweet with the scent of fruit, and fragrant with thyme, and sage, and marjoram; and where the black-birds, bold marauders that they are, piped gloriously all day long.
She looked also handsomer than usual, with her hair arranged in little curls, her sly face slightly bent, her lips compressed, and her hands showing somewhat too rosily against her big white apron. Florent had never before seen her decked with so much jewellery.
"I'm afraid it is;" and auntie laughed a little as she spoke. The great summer hotel was not nearly full yet, for it was only the last of June; and as Peggy went down to luncheon, her hand closely clasped in "auntie's," whom should she meet face to face in the rather deserted-looking hall but "those girls"? It was a little embarrassing all round, and they all colored up very rosily as they met.
Sandy Morley had faded into an indistinct blur, but the romance he had awakened bore the girl far and away from the common life of The Hollow. "I thought," the uplifted face glowed rosily; "I thought I heard a new note! Some strange bird!" Then, with a toss of the head which threw the broad brimmed hat back on the shoulders, "I must be getting right daffy!
She opened the window, for the night was mild, and sat on the floor with her chin resting upon the window-sill. Even the stars were strangers. Where was this kindly world she had drawn so rosily in fancy? Disillusion everywhere. The spinsters were not kind; they were only curious because she was odd and wore a dress thirty years out of date.
Slowly these May-flowers budded in her maiden heart, rosily they bloomed, and silently they waited till some lover of such lowly herbs should catch their fresh aroma, should brush away the fallen leaves, and lift them to the sun. Though the eldest of the three, she had long been overtopped by the more aspiring maids.
He had visions of 'rosily dying, of 'turning to daisies gently in the grave, of a 'pink reclining death, of death coming like a summer cloud over the soul. I am thy friend, I struggle not with thee, I love thy state: Thou canst be sweet and gentle, be so now; And let me pass praying away into thee, As twilight still does into starry night.
"Have you lodged a complaint done anything to have this fellow arrested?" he demanded, alluding to Van. "Have you reported what was done to me?" "Why, no," said Beth. "What's the use? He did it all in kindness, after all." "Kindness!" "Of a sort a rough sort, perhaps, but genuine a kindness to me and Elsa," she answered, flushing rosily.
"Good-bye, if you must go," said Barrie, following the small, stiff figure to the door. "I I wish you'd kiss me, Heppie." Janet actually started, and a blush produced itself in a way peculiar to her face, appearing mostly upon the nose, where it lingered rosily at the end. Kisses were not exchanged under Mrs. MacDonald's roof.
Again her panting impulsiveness ended in extinction of voice, again she was rosily self-conscious, though, this time, not exactly shamefaced; and again the young man felt a sort of surprise as he gazed at her. "In any case," he said, standing up and taking a step or two, "an offer of this kind couldn't be accepted straightaway. All I can say now is that I'm very grateful to you.
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