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Another gate delivered them into the second court, grass-grown, and more wild than the first, where, as she surveyed through the twilight its desolation its lofty walls, overtopt with briony, moss and nightshade, and the embattled towers that rose above, long-suffering and murder came to her thoughts.
Dutchman's Breeches "That case of Holland gin and Old Tailor has arrived. Come on over." Iris "Could you learn to love an optician?" Aster "Who was that stout Jewish-looking party I saw you with in the hotel lobby Friday?" Deadly Nightshade "Pull down those blinds, quick!" Passion Flower "Phone Main 1249 ask for Eddie." Raspberry "I am announcing my engagement to Charlie O'Keefe Tuesday."
'They are very nice, Lesbia answered languidly; 'but they are all alike. They say the same things wear the same clothes sit in the same attitude. One would think they were all drilled in a body every morning before they go out. Mr. Nightshade, the actor, who came to supper the other night, is the only man I have seen who has a spark of originality.
I said that nothing grew on the trellises by the poplars but crimson roses, but I was not quite right, for in many places the wild flowers had crept into the garden from without; lush green briony, with green-white blossoms, that grows so fast, one could almost think that we see it grow, and deadly nightshade, La bella donna, O! so beautiful; red berry, and purple, yellow-spiked flower, and deadly, cruel-looking, dark green leaf, all growing together in the glorious days of early autumn.
Among further plants associated with his Satanic majesty may be enumerated the garden fennel, or love-in-a-mist, to which the name of "devil-in-a-bush" has been applied, while the fruit of the deadly nightshade is commonly designated "devil's berries." Then there is the "devil's tree," and the "devil's dung" is one of the nicknames of the assafoetida.
About two miles distant, and in a romantic glen called the Valley of Deadly Nightshade, not far from the sea, is one of the finest examples of mediæval church-architecture in England, the ruins of Furness Abbey, founded in the twelfth century by King Stephen and Maud, his queen.
Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it. And now beware of rashness, but with sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. One point in this letter is especially worth our consideration, for it suggests a condition that springs up like deadly nightshade from a poisonous soil.
I'll make her sticks over an original pattern; I'll twine nightshade vines, with flowers and berries around them, and put a trailed luna on one, and what is the next prettiest for the other? I'll think well before if decide. Maybe she'll come by the time I get to carving and tell me what she likes. That would beat my taste or guessing a mile."
And as to those poisonous tracts, in spite of their salubrious labels, "The Poor Man's Friend," or "The Rights of Labour," you could no more have found one of them lurking in the drawers of the kitchen dressers in Hazeldean than you would have found the deadly nightshade on the flower-stands in the drawing-room of the Hall.
Mr Nightshade and Mr Mac Laurel joined the trio; and it was secretly resolved, that Miss Philomela should furnish them with a portion of her manuscripts, and that Messieurs Gall & Co. should devote the following morning to cutting and drying a critique on a work calculated to prove so extensively beneficial, that Mr Gall protested he really envied the writer.
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