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Updated: June 26, 2025
I had known him but slightly, the acquaintance having come about through his interest in some stories which I had published, and which he had a way of calling "psychological studies." He was a dreamy, romantic, fine-grained lad, proud as a tiger-lily and sensitive as a blue-bell.
'Well, she has the same awkward shape as you, the Rose said, 'but she's redder and her petals are shorter, I think. 'Her petals are done up close, almost like a dahlia, the Tiger-lily interrupted: 'not tumbled about anyhow, like yours. 'But that's not YOUR fault, the Rose added kindly: 'you're beginning to fade, you know and then one can't help one's petals getting a little untidy.
"My name doesn't in the least matter," she replied calmly "though I will tell you afterward if you wish. But you don't seem to understand I...I am 'Tiger-Lily'!" The situation was becoming ludicrous. Villiers felt strongly disposed to laugh. "I'm afraid I am very ignorant!" he said, with a humorous sparkle in his blue eyes, "But really I am quite in the dark as to your meaning. Will you explain?"
'I never saw anybody that looked stupider, a Violet said, so suddenly, that Alice quite jumped; for it hadn't spoken before. 'Hold YOUR tongue! cried the Tiger-lily. 'As if YOU ever saw anybody! You keep your head under the leaves, and snore away there, till you know no more what's going on in the world, than if you were a bud!
Not one knew anything of Kay. Gerda heard many stories from the flowers, as she asked them one after another about him. And what, said the tiger-lily? "Hark, do you hear the drum? 'turn, turn, there are only two notes, always, 'turn, turn. Listen to the women's song of mourning! Hear the cry of the priest! In her long red robe stands the Hindoo widow by the funeral pile.
And it was called, we are informed, 'The Piccadilly Hare and Hound' from that day. "'Tho' fair I be a powdered peruke, And once was a gaping silly, Your Whitechapel Countess will prove, Lord Duke, She's a regular tiger-lily. She'll fight you with cold steel or she'll run you off your legs Down the length of Piccadilly!" That will satisfy; and perhaps indicate the hand.
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