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So we'll shake hands to-morrow all round and call it square, and go on our ways separately." "And what do you think you'll do, Uncle Dick?" said his close-shaven companion listlessly. "I'll make tracks for a square meal, a bed that a man can comfortably take off his boots and die in, and some violet-scented soap. Civilization's good enough for me!
It was a still afternoon the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss: an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath.
Valentine met her ceremoniously in the violet-scented hall and helped her to slide out of her jacket. His glance upon the imitation lace was quick and gay, but Cuckoo did not see it. She was gazing at the flowers, and when she entered the drawing-room and found herself in the midst of the orchids, the West Indian flowers and the palms, her astonishment knew no bounds.
"Nay, an thou wilt depart with such scant ceremony" he grumbled peevishly "get thee thence and find out the road as best thou mayest! ... why should I aid thee? For myself I am well contented here to remain and sleep, no better couch can the Poet have than this violet-scented moss" and he waved his arm with a grandiloquent gesture, "no grander canopy than this star- besprinkled heaven!
To-day, this glorious spring day when the violet-scented air held a hint of summer's warmth in its breath, Toni was making holiday. Her employer was from home, called to London by the hint of a wonderful book sale to be held there the following week; and Toni's time was her own for nearly eight days.
I would softly approach these little boots in order not to wake the little man who was still asleep in the adjoining room; I felt them, I turned them over, I looked at them on all sides, and I found a delightful smile rise to my lips. Never did the old violet-scented glove that lay for so long in the inmost recess of my drawer procure me so sweet an emotion.
"I'll go right down to her old place and see if she's there," he told the nurse. "She has probably gone back to her room. Certainly I will insist that she return to the hospital to-night." As he hung up the receiver Pat touched his elbow and pointed to a messenger-boy waiting for him with a note. It was Gila's violet-scented missive over which she had wept those angry tears.
Then it dropped into her lap, and for a moment she remained motionless, with closed eyes, as though stupefied. Then, rising quickly, she again read the violet-scented missive, written on the finest parchment. "Your son," ran the brief contents "your son, who has so long been separated from his mother, at last desires to look into her eyes.
It may have seemed only comforting and natural to him, that swift childish kiss, and Phyllis's honey-colored, violet-scented hair brushing his face. Men take a great deal without question as their rightful due.
There was an accumulated difference of some fifteen thousand dollars in ore values between us and the smelter people, and I was obliged to stay on with Barrett and help wrangle for our side in the discrepancy dispute. At dinner time that evening I managed to elude Barrett, and upon going to the lobby desk for my mail, found a violet-scented envelope addressed to "Mr.
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