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Updated: July 11, 2025
At the top of it, the laird turned to the right, and lifted the latch all the doors were latched of a dark-looking door. It screaked dismally as it opened. He entered and undid a shutter, letting an abiding flash of the ever young light of the summer day into the ancient room. It was long since Cosmo had been in it before. The aspect of it affected him like a withered wall-flower.
"Kind of you," returned Hal, gratefully. "But I fear I must remain a wall-flower, or a human palm to-night. I don't know how to dance." "You don't?" murmured Featherstone, in amazement. "Good heavens! I thought even the bootblacks knew how to dance in these modern days!" Jacob Farnum knew how to dance, but did not care for it this evening.
Emerging from this we came into the castle court, the center of the small plateau on the summit of the rock. Around us rose the broken, straggling walls, bare and bleak, without a shred of ivy or wall-flower to hide their grim nakedness.
Djor Kantos had not come running like a willing slave when she had expected him, and, ah, here was the nub of the whole thing! Gahan, Jed of Gathol, a stranger, had been a witness to her humiliation. He had seen her unclaimed at the beginning of a great function and he had had to come to her rescue to save her, as he doubtless thought, from the inglorious fate of a wall-flower.
If thou wilt have a wall-flower, I will give it thee. Flower of the lemon! The lemon is sharp, and its leaves are bitter; But more bitter are the torments of love. In this way I wrote out some scores.
"Ah, Nina, I can see you the most charming young house-mistress I can see you receive your guests when they come for afternoon music you wear a tea-gown of brocade the color of wall-flower, with cream-colored lace you speak French, English, Italian as it is necessary for this one and that your musical reunions are known everywhere. Will madame permit the poor Estelle to be present?
Wherever it was, he went upon it, with a bran-new ladder, a white hat, a brown holland jacket and trousers, a blue neck-kerchief, and a sprig of full- blown double wall-flower in his button-hole. Tom was always genteel in his appearance, and I have heard from the best judges, that if he had left his ladder at home that afternoon, you might have took him for a lord.
Our hero, having confessed his inability to dance, had been diligently instructed in the Lancers by Oscar, so that he felt some confidence in being able to get through without any serious blunder. "Of course you must dance, Harry," he said. "You don't want to be a wall-flower." "I may have to be," said Harry. "I shall know none of the young ladies except your sister."
It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall.
'Am I to be a wall-flower? asked James Durie reproachfully. 'Speak lower, replied my mother, with an uneasy look at me. 'Pooh! said James contemptuously, 'that kail-runtle! 'I winna have him miscalled, said my mother, frowning. Like the man he was, he followed up his advantage with a comparison that made me dip viciously.
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