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So now I shall content me with something" that looks like her he did not say definitely, but felt it none the less, as, going over to the flower-basket near by, he picked out a little nosegay of mignonette and geranium, with a tea-rosebud in its centre, and pinned it at his button-hole.
Tom started, and Willie took from his button-hole just such a little nosegay as that he had bought on Broadway a fortnight before, a geranium leaf, a bit of mignonette, and a delicate tea-rosebud, and, seeing it was drooping, laid it carefully upon the programme on his knee.
He wanted now just such another, some mignonette, and geranium, and a single tea-rosebud. Here they were, the very counterparts of those which he had worn on a brighter and happier day. How like they were! how changed was he!
She was simply dressed in her dainty print gown, a single tea-rosebud peeped out from her bodice; she looked more lily-like, so Alan thought in his heart, than he had ever yet seen her. She held out her hand to him with parted lips and a conscious blush. Alan took it, but bent forward at the same time, and with a hasty glance around, just touched her rich mouth.
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