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But poor Rosa, in her secluded chamber, could not have known of whom or of what Cornelius was dreaming. From what he had said she was more ready to believe that he dreamed of the black tulip than of her; and yet Rosa was mistaken.
But at this moment his eyes closed involuntarily, to receive more resolutely the terrible avalanche which was about to fall on his head, and to engulf his life. A gleam like that of lightning passed across the scaffold: it was the executioner raising his sword. Van Baerle bade farewell to the great black tulip, certain of awaking in another world full of light and glorious tints.
You don't speak to me of the floods, therefore I think that the Seine did not commit any follies at your place and that the tulip tree did not get its roots wet. I feared lest you were anxious and wondered if your bank was high enough to protect you. Here we have nothing of that sort to be afraid of; our streams are very wicked, but we are far from them.
A vision of Hill Street floated before her the long straight street, with the sudden drop of ragged hill at the end; the old houses, with crumbling porches and countless signs: "Boarders Wanted" in the windows between the patched curtains; the irregular rows of tulip poplar, elm, or sycamore trees throwing their crooked shadows over the cobblestones; the blades of grass sprouting along the edges of the brick pavement the vision of Hill Street as she remembered it twenty years ago in her girlhood; and then the image of her mother's face gazing out beneath the creamy blossoms and the dark shining leaves of the old magnolia tree.
About them was the Seven Sisters rose, and above towered the tulip tree with a mockingbird singing in its branches. The place was filled with the odour of the box. To the end of their lives the smell of box brought back that hour in the Fontenoy garden. The green walls hid from view all without their little round.
"With acetylene lights, a furnace, baths, and hot and cold water " interpolated the Harvester. The Girl and the decorator laughed. "Anyway," said she, "if you are going to let me have what I would like, I'd prefer a set of tulip yellow dishes with the Dutch little figures on them. I don't know what they cost, but certainly they are not so expensive as cut glass and china."
When twenty years old Vernet was married, and from this time he kept an expense account in which all the prices he received for his works are set down. The smallest is twenty-four sous for a tulip; the largest is fifty thousand francs for the portrait of the Empress of Russia. About 1817 Vernet became the favorite of the Duke of Orleans, and was therefore unpopular with the royal party.
"We are going to exchange information," he said "I am going to tell you that, when you tell me what you picked up in the tulip bed." We looked steadily at each other: it was not an unfriendly stare; we were only measuring weapons. Then he smiled a little and got up. "With your permission," he said, "I am going to examine the card-room and the staircase again.
And one of the roots bared only in part by the wasting away of the earth by the river, near which it grew, measured 110 feet long; and yet these stupendous trees never exceed 70 feet in height. Tulip. What is in common language called a bulbous root, is by Linneus termed the Hybernacle, or Winter-lodge of the young plant.
A bright row of polyanthus and oxlips seemed to be the haunt of the male bees. There they waited, some on the leaves and some on the dry clods heated by the sun, in ambush till a dark lady should come. The yellow tulip was a perfect weather-meter; if there was the least bit of harshness in the air, the least relic of the east wind, it remained folded.
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