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Updated: June 27, 2025
Billy had told me once that Milly Burt, who stays at the cigar stand in the Goodloe Hotel in Goodloets, dances so much like me and is so perfumed with my especial sachet from France, Mother Spurlock having collected the chiffon blouse from me for her to wear at the entertainment of the Epworth League, that he came very near addressing her by my name in giving her the invitation to the dance.
'The sorrows of youth soon appear but as dreams, it said. 'Farewell, Robert of my heart. I have loved you well. The fire had burnt to a red glow. One by one the spices and sweet woods were laid on it. Some smelt nice and some the caraway seeds and the Violettes de Parme sachet among them smelt worse than you would think possible.
No good staying in town on such a morning. Besides " He glanced at Doria in significant aposiopesis. "And you lugged that infernal thing a mile and a half?" I asked, pointing to the suit-case, which must have weighed half a ton. "Why didn't you leave it to be called for?" "This? This little sachet?" He lifted it up by one finger and grinned. Susan regarded the feat, awe-stricken.
And at sight of it there sprang to memory that unforgotten day of May, the fight with Joe; Tara's bracelet, still treasured in his letter-case, even as Tara treasured the "broidered bodice," in a lavender-scented sachet, set apart from mere blouses and scarves.... And again that troublesome voice within urged "What an utter fool you are running away from them all."
There would be a fragrance about the white dress and the laces, and ermine, and the silk things that you could not see, a fragrance as mysterious as the rustling, for it would seem to belong to the girl, and not to have come from any bottle, or bag of sachet powder. A sweet, fresh, indefinable fragrance, like the smell of a tea rose after rain.
For the venerable Howells, lavender and mignonette. For Zola, Rochefort and wet leather. For Mrs. Humphrey Ward, lilies of the valley. For Marie Corelli, tuberoses and embalming fluid. For Chambers, sachet and lip paint. For But I leave you to make your own choices. All I offer is the general idea. It has been tried in the theatre.
For O, she had always known what a little goose she was; and Pauline never meant any harm, and how handsome she was, you know! only she didn't have three babies to look after, nor a snubbed nose either, and the sachet powder was only American, and the very servants knew, and, O Myron! she had wanted to be dead so long, and then
Perhaps Jane's entrance roused him; or, perhaps it was the odor of the sachet powder wherewith her garments were liberally scented, for he had a singularly delicate sense of smell. He lifted his head and, after the manner of aged and confirmed cat-nappers, was instantly wide awake. "Why didn't you tell me Victor Dorn was coming for dinner?" said she.
Yesterday she was talking about sauchets a la violette; well, our French perfumers, you know very well, madame, for you have over and over again asked for it without success our French perfumers, I say, have never been able to procure this scent. The duke, however, wore about him a sachet a la violette, and I am sure that the one my wife has came from him."
A faint, mixed perfume of violet sachet and fricasseed chicken attended her. "Well, as you were saying, Ralph?" she suggested. "Oh, I was just tracing a little parallel between Hatboro' and Sheol," replied her husband. Mrs. Putney made a tchk of humorous patience, and laughed toward Annie for sympathy. "Well, then, I guess you needn't go on. Tea's ready. Shall we wait for the doctor?"
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