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"'Did they bring any trunks with them? he whispered to his Adherent, as they approached. "'No, your Royal Highness, was the answer. 'They brought nothing but a basket of water-cress, which the lady said had been freshly picked and ought not to be wasted.
The meal was soon ready, and consisted of cress fresh from the spring, fried cress, and toasted cress, with cress tea, and also freshly drawn water from a spring." "Poor young man!" exclaimed the Next Neighbor. "So tired and hungry! Was that all they had to give him?" "Of course," explained Pomona; "hermits never eat anything but water-cress."
Aylmer, "and quite in the old style crabs and a water-cress salad. I thought you would appreciate that; we so often had crabs for supper when when you were here last, Flo. You remember them, don't you?" "Nothing could be more appetising," replied Florence. "Would you like to come upstairs now, Kitty?" Mrs. Aylmer had given up her wee bed-room to the two girls.
She was magnificently dressed in a pale green gown, the color of water-cress, embroidered in silver, and wore a splendid head-dress. I thought I had never seen her more truly the great lady. She knew, of course, what Gaston's adventure had been, but I suppose he had not given her all the particulars. The supper was singularly merry, perhaps owing to the absence of the king.
The scene on the Water-cress Farm shows the complete metamorphosis undergone by what was once a swift running brook when once the new culture is taken in hand. When left to Nature, the little chalk stream might truly have said, in the words of the poem "I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses, I linger by my shingly bars, I loiter round my cresses."
In the Vosges this plant is much used as our own water-cress is in England for a salad, under the name of Cresson de Roche. Its fragile stem and delicate compound leaves, and the early season at which it blossoms, give attraction to this little plant, and make it a favourite with me. The butter-cups are not yet in bloom; but the daisies!
Dede, who had a fondness for cattails, established a fringe of them along the meadow stream, where they were left to fight it out with the water-cress. And when the latter was threatened with extinction, Daylight developed one of the shaded springs into his water-cress garden and declared war upon any invading cattail.
'From the moment I saw your daughter with the basket of water-cress, I loved her. By your permission, I will embrace her. "The permission was given, and he embraced her.
"And now, if you please, sir, you may bring me some of that water-cress; we'll sit over there in the shade, and who cares whether Granite Basin, the Mannings, and your fellow cow-punchers, are fifteen or fifty miles away?" He brought a generous bunch of the water-cress, and stretched himself full length beside her, as she sat on the ground under a tall sycamore. "Selah!" he laughed contentedly.
The strip of sward between the two waters was certainly not more than twenty yards; there was no division hedge, or railing, and evidently no preservation, for the mouchers came and washed their water-cress which they had gathered in the ditches by the side hatch, and no one interfered with them. There was no keeper or water bailiff, not even a notice board.
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