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He had cut such a gallant figure when he entered the room, with his sparkling eye and smile, his almost jaunty manner, his superior tailor's plumage and now he was such a crestfallen and wilted thing!
Sharp, unpleasant odours came from the pig-pen in the barnyard, where the rain was scattering the slops in the trough. A bull bellowed in a far-off pasture. Before the hen-house door several dripping fowls strutted with wilted feathers. He saw it all in silence, with the dogged eyes of one whose gaze is turned inward. He made no gesture, uttered no exclamation.
It was culpable sorrow too, somewhat, in that he had not prevented it, and a heart-hardening sorrow in that it took the best that he loved. "She jes' collapsed, Bud sudden't like wilted like a vi'let that's stepped on, an' the Doctor says she's got no sho' at all, ther' bein' nothin' to build on.
He had seen party chiefs and faction leaders go it for a whole afternoon, from four to eight, hoarse and puffing, sweating like diggers in a sewer, with their collars wilted to rags, watching the great hall-clock with the intentness of a man waiting to be hanged. "Still an hour left before closing time!" a speaker's friends would say.
And now she sat drooping like a wilted lily beside the green pond, because of her love for another man, and his honest heart ached that it should be so. "Marjorie!" he said. She lifted a tear-stained face and held out her hand' to him silently. He patted her hand gently, as one pats the hand of a child. "Is is it so bad, little girl? Do you care for him so much?" "Better than my life!" she said.
The air was fragrant with the smell of growing things for the rainy season was not yet far enough advanced to induce decomposition of the wilted and dead vegetation; and Suma, glad to be back in her home again, speedily sank into a peaceful and refreshing sleep.
If the stem of a plant freshly wilted from this disease be severed, the bacteria will ooze out in dirty white drops on the cut surface. =Remedial measures= entirely satisfactory for the control of bacterial wilt have not yet been worked out. The best methods to adopt at present are the following: Rotation of crops.
"Dorcas Fox is here, Swan. I am Dorcas." "You? you Dorcas Fox?" said he, roughly. "Was it a ghost I saw?" he murmured, "or is this a ghost?" He had seen a bud, fresh, dewy, and blooming; and now he brushed away from his thought the wilted and brown substitute. Not a line of the face, not a tone of the voice, did he remember.
A quiet successful union, not meaning, he had thought, so very much to him nor so very much to her until forty-eight hours ago he told her; and she had shrunk, and wilted, and gone all to pieces. And what was it he had told her? A long story that!
The little black head burrowed under Rose Mary's chin and the clasped pink feet relaxed before the final words were said. For a few minutes Rose Mary held him tenderly and buried her face against the back of the sunburned little neck, while as helpless as young Tucker Stonie wilted upon her breast and floated off into the depths.
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