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Allis knew who the friends were; the clinging touch of stephanotis had come with him. The discrepancy in Crane's sentiments jarred on Allis. That other day this woman had been his trainer's sister, recognized for politic purposes; to-day he had been sitting with "friends."
The sense of smell never lies; it is of all senses the truest and it handed along without comment to the brain of Cléo the faint perfume of the stephanotis affected by Madame de Brie and of the Yoya-yoya affected by the Comtesse de Mirandole, also traces from the varnish and upholstery of the car. "Who, my dear, is that man," asked Madame de Brie.
It was perfectly sickening the humiliation and degradation of his so frequently coming into her mind. She pulled the despatch-box nearer to her again, and in anger and contempt took from an envelope a brown and withered spray of flowers, which had once been stephanotis, and with forceful rage flung them into the fire. "There! that is done with ridiculous, hateful sentiment, go!"
The old church was all in white; great lilies in vases, wreaths of stephanotis; and, above all, roses great garlands of white roses had been woven, and they hung along and across.
He looked round at the familiar objects of his room the futile little gimcracks with which he had surrounded an existence worthy of such environments the invitation cards on the draped mantelpiece, the little glass vases of fantastic shape with a single bloom of stephanotis, the hundred and one fantasies of a finicking generation wherein Art sappeth Manhood.
He spoke with a hopefulness he could never feel, for he knew that the life of Leon Ramon was doomed; and as the other strove to gain breath enough to answer him, he gently motioned him to silence, and placed on his bed some peaches bedded deep in moss and circled round with stephanotis, with magnolia, with roses, with other rarer flowers still.
She held in her hand an enormous bouquet, composed of the rarest flowers of India: the stephanotis and the gardenia mingled the dead white of their blossoms with the purple hibiscus and Java amaryllis.
Come along!" and she tripped forward with a glance over her shoulder. Michael's eyes blazed she was a truly bewitching morsel in her fresh white frock with its bunch of crimson sweet peas stuck in the belt. "Your flowers should be stephanotis," he said, and that was all, as he followed her down the stairs. "I cannot bear them," she retorted and shuddered a little.
He walked directly to a large pot of stephanotis in a distant corner and picked the stump of a gold-tipped cigarette from thence. "I dropped it in there," he said. "Strange; if you had asked me that question two minutes ago I should not have been able to answer it. And now I distinctly remember pitching it in there and watching it scorch some of that beautiful lace-like moss.
Naturally! all very unsuspicious looking and quite in keeping with the proprieties! Guido had just left her then? I walked steadily, without hurrying my pace, down the hill toward the city, and on the way I overtook him. He was strolling lazily along, smoking as usual, and he held a spray of stephanotis in his hand well I knew who had given it to him!
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