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Updated: June 20, 2025
There, on the summit of La Verna, you look down on the broken fortresses of countless wars, the passes through which army after army, company upon company, has marched to victory or fled in defeat; every hill-top seems to bear some ruined Rocca, every valley to be a forgotten battlefield, every stream has run red with blood. All is forgotten, all is over, all is done with.
They went up to the main saloon and joined the mêlée there, and after one dance with Verna all he could claim in that crowd of men Crowninshield turned to Brandon. "You two seem to know Miss Pickering extraordinarily well. Would I be stepping on your toes if I give her a play?" "Clear ether as far as we're concerned." Brandon shrugged his shoulders.
Verna and I had lunch together in a perfectly gorgeous old hall, with beams and carved panelling and antlers, and a fireplace you could have roasted an ox in, and rows of glistening suits of armour which the original ffrenches had worn when they had first started the family in life and all this, if you please, tete-a-tete with a woman who seemed to get more beautiful every minute I gazed at her, and who smiled back at me and called me Fyles, to the stupefaction of three noiseless six- footers in silk stockings.
"Wouldn't it be horrible," I said, "if I found out I wasn't a ffrench at all but had really sprung from a low-down, capital F family in the next county or somewhere!" "Oh, but you are a real ffrench," said Verna. "How do you know?" I asked. "I can FEEL it," she said. "I never felt that kind of sensation before towards anybody except my father!" I hardly knew whether to be pleased or not.
Bridgman the half-decayed leaves of Phlox verna are particularly liked by worms.
I believe that I'll catch me a physicist, too either of you would do quite nicely, I think," and she studied the two men carefully. Westfall, the methodical and precise, had never been able to defend himself against Verna Pickering's badinage, but Brandon's ready tongue took up the challenge.
Starting from this conception the pedigree of our mutations must be considered as only one small group. Instead of figuring a fan of mutants for each year, we must condense all the succeeding swarms into one single fan, as might be done also for Draba verna and other polymorphous species.
Candida felt for the Countess that protecting tenderness with which Italian children so often regard their parents, a feeling heightened by the reverence which the mother's sufferings inspired. Countess Verna, as the wife and mother of martyrs, had done what Candida longed to do: she had given her utmost to Italy.
"Unsay, take back, those angry words," I said; and even as I did so the anchor went splash and I could hear the telegraph jingle in the engine-room. "And so you're rich," said Verna, "awfully, immensely, disgustingly rich, and you've been masquerading all this afternoon as a charming pauper!" "I don't think I said charming," I remarked.
SNOWDROP. The first of the productions of Flora which reminds us of the return of spring after the dark and dreary days of winter. This plant is also made double by cultivation, but is not handsomer than the common wild one. The best time for planting the bulbs of Snowdrops is in the month of September. GENTIANA verna.
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