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It is distinguished, as the name indicates, by having two wings to the seed vessel, H. tetraptera having four. Japan, 1875. This is a shrub of perfect hardihood, free growth, and very floriferous. The flowers, which are pure white, and in long racemes, resemble much those of the Snowdrop Tree. Leaves broad and slightly dentated.
Jobson, junior, who had just come in from the shop, remarked, shortly, that he felt more like a blooming snowdrop. "And somebody slopped a lot of water over the stairs carrying it up," said Mrs. Jobson. "I don't believe as everybody has cold baths of a morning. It don't seem wholesome to me." Mr. Jobson took a book from his pocket, and opening it at a certain page, handed it over to her.
The sixth, "Who has cut with my knife?" The seventh, "Who has drunk out of my little cup?" Then the first dwarf looked about, and saw that there was a slight hollow in his bed, so he asked, "Who has been lying in my little bed?" The others came running, and each called out, "Some one has also been lying in my bed." But the seventh, when he looked in his bed, saw Snowdrop there, fast asleep.
For suppose, gentlemen, that all the species of Orchids, and not only they, but their congeners the Gingers, the Arrowroots, the Bananas are all the descendants of one original form, which was most probably nearly allied to the Snowdrop and the Iris. What then?
When she heard this, she was so alarmed that all the blood rushed to her heart, for she saw plainly that Snowdrop was still alive. "This time," said she, "I will think of some means that shall destroy her utterly;" and with the help of witchcraft, in which she was skilful, she made a poisoned comb. Then she changed her dress and took the shape of another old woman.
Strange gnomes and fairies seemed to be alive in it, and the element it contained, was not water, but fire. The most marvellous display of fireworks that you have ever seen, would be nothing in comparison. Sometimes it illustrated well-known fairy tales: Snowdrop in her glass coffin, Cinderella trying on the shoe and so on.
Aw-w, she'll sleep on a finer bed nor you an' I could give 'er, an' wake happy, with ever'one she loved best around her. She's layin' there so white an' small an' still it'd most break your hear to see 'er. Like a little snowdrop you've picked, an' worn, an' slung away. So gentle " "Well, what's this, anyway? A wake?" broke in Faro Sam's icy voice. "Do I hire fiddlers to play a funeral dirge?
But, just the same, Miss Robinson's hand flew up automatically against the dark of Hattie's lips. "I don't fade off, dearie. Your own natural skin is no more color-fast. I handled Elaine Doremus in 'The Snowdrop' for three seasons. Never so much as a speck or a spot on her. My cream don't fade." "Of course not, dear! How silly of me! Kiss me again." That was kind enough of her.
"How would a lily, a violet, a pansy, a daffodil, a narcissus, and a snowdrop do?" "How pretty!" exclaimed Miss Howard. "What put such a picturesque idea in your head? It is beautiful, and can be carried out admirably. You must be my fair and lovely lily; then shall come my violet and daffodil; then my narcissus and lilac; then my pansy and modest little snowdrop. That will exactly suit Helen."
Both read all the story-books they could get, held daily levees in the Bird Room, and all their spare minutes were spent in teaching Snowdrop, the great Angora cat, to bring the ball when they dropped it in their game.
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