years-burst

Updated: May 21, 2025

Report malicious, I feel sure reached me later, that, at the first note of it, an aloe in Sir Felix's gardens, a mile away a plant noted for blossoming once only in a hundred years-burst into profuse and instantaneous bloom. Sir Felix himself, who abounded all day in happy turns of speech, said the best thing of this band. He said it was sui generis. He was magnificent throughout.

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