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Flagg was a tall, commanding sort of person, with an air of satisfaction and authority. "Oh, yes, gather all you want," she said stiffly, as Miss Pickett took the syringa without having asked beforehand; but she had an amiable expression, and just now her large countenance was lighted up by pleasant anticipation. "We can tell early what sort of a day it's goin' to be," she said eagerly.
Its front of bright clean red brick was perhaps too near the street; but the garden, whose tall lilac and syringa bushes waved over the top of the high wall, must, he thought, run back some way, and from the west windows there must be a glorious sea-view. The house looked both genteel and benevolent.
And was there not, a little way down the line, a fence foamed over every May be lilac waves of wistaria? Farther still, a horse-chestnut lifted its candelabra of buff and pink blossoms above broad fans of foliage; while in the opposite yard June was sweet with the breath of a neglected syringa, which persisted in growing in spite of the countless obstacles opposed to its welfare.
"I don't know what you are driving at." "You can't cheat me. Something is to pay. For the land's sake, leave that peony alone, and get the weeds out from around that syringa bush. You act as if you were possessed. What ailed you and Mr. Allen this morning? I want to know." "I don't know what you are driving at," Henry said again, but he obediently turned his attention to the syringa bush.
Still she was tired and subdued, and when Verney had dressed her arm she announced her intention of spending the afternoon in the garden out of the way of kind enquiries: and she settled herself on an Indian chair behind a thicket of lilac and syringa, while Val and Rowsley and Yvonne brought books and cushions and chocolate and eau de cologne to comfort beauty in distress.
It was exactly a week ago to-day it began, while they were making the birthday presents together, Margaret sitting in this very chair and Nell the Enemy sitting on the toppest door-step. Who would have thought it was coming? There was nothing to warn no thunder in the sky, no little mother-bird on the syringa bush. It just came oh, hum!
Their nook of turf was out of sight of the house, sheltered from it behind a great thicket of lilac and syringa, which walled off the lawn from the kitchen garden full of sweet-smelling currant bushes and apple-trees laden with green fruit.
A mental flash-light showed him the ruffian who had wounded this bright creature; had led her on to love him, and then either betrayed his brutal nature so that hers rose up in revolt, or just as likely that kind of man would do anything gone off and left her. "The extraordinary thing is, what women see in such a fellow!" he told the syringa. The syringa drooped, and looked sympathetic.
Fairfax Cary embracing with alacrity the chance of goodness, the two went into the house. The dusk deepened; the odour of honeysuckle and syringa grew heavier, and white moths sailed by on their way to the lighted windows. "Since love since love is blissful sorrow, Then bid the lad then bid the lad Then bid the lad a fair good morrow!" flowed in soprano from the parlour.
Some of the Old Girls had motored out to the country and brought great masses of white and purple lilac, and sweet-scented syringa, and big jars held the roses that the bride loved.
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