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Oh, Em," he said, turning again, and twining his arm about her, and kissing her surprised little mouth, "if you are not my wife I cannot live. I have never loved another woman, and I never shall! never, never!" "You make me afraid," said Em. "Come, let us go, and I will fill your pail." "I want no milk. Good-bye! You will not see me again till Saturday."
Into her principal hall, far down, circular, one descended by a circle of steps of marble, round which stood a colonnade of Cuban cedar, supporting candelabra and silks; and from atrium-pools sunk in the floor twelve twining fountains brandished spiral sprays, the floor being of a glassy marble, polished with snakestone, suffused with blushes at the coloured silks and at a roof gross with rose and pomegranates, hanging chandeliers; round the raised centre of the floor stood two balustrades, three feet high, hung with silks, the inner circle thirty feet across, higher than the outer, forty-five across: a roseate room, strewn with cushions, colours, flushes; but that raised space was empty: reserved for a throne.
The extremities of the depending shoots turn upwards, and twine on themselves. In all these respects we have complete identity with twining phanerogamic plants; and the above enumeration may serve as a summary of the leading characteristics of all twining plants. The power of revolving depends on the general health and vigour of the plant, as has been laboriously shown by Palm.
"She is sweet!" nodded Polly. "Nobody knows how sweet till they've lived with her." Every day now Miss Twining had a visit from Polly, and every day she had to tell her that she had not heard from Mr. Parcell. "He is only waiting till he has read the book through," Polly assured the disappointed author.
I could not see the end of this hall for the moon did not reach it, but looking up I beheld the walls fretted in great panels into the utmost splendour of sculpture, encircling the stories of the Gods amid a twining and under-weaving of leaves and flowers. It was more like a temple than a dwelling.
The revolving movement of a twining plant has been compared with that of the tip of a sapling, moved round and round by the hand held some way down the stem; but there is one important difference. The upper part of the sapling when thus moved remains straight; but with twining plants every part of the revolving shoot has its own separate and independent movement.
She takes him without the slightest embarrassment, her movements are natural, she shows no awkwardness, and in her two twining arms the baby finds a place to fit him, and falls asleep contentedly in the nest created for him. It would be thought that woman serves a mysterious apprenticeship to maternity. Man, on the other hand, is greatly troubled by the birth of a child.
We soon reached the thick wood with its matted undergrowth, and the old and knotted vines twining like enormous reptiles around the trunks of the trees; and so slow was our progress through it, that, when we emerged into the open country, it was nearly sunset. The remaining distance was more rapidly accomplished.
I am very grateful to Miss Twining, I assure you, and I realize that I should have sent her a note of thanks; but in fact, I don't recollect just how it was I presume I was waiting until I had read the book, and I may as well confess it! I was somewhat afraid to read it." "Afraid?" Polly looked puzzled. "Such things are apt to be dreary reading," he smiled. "I am rather a crank as regards poetry."
The mist had now so far collapsed that the tips of the trees and bushes around his house could just be discerned, as if boring upwards through a vast white cobweb which cloaked them from the day. There was no doubt that her mind was inclined thitherward; indefinitely, fancifully twining and untwining about him as the single object within her horizon on which dreams might crystallize.
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