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We beat the hedge on the other side, but with no avail. We dive into the thicket of wild roses, sweetbrier, and thistles on our hands and knees, coming out with tangled hair, scratched noses, and no hens. Then, when all has been done that human ingenuity can suggest, Phoebe goes to her late supper and I do sentry-work.
"Miss Jennie," he said, later in the evening, "you have an insight into character which we grosser mortals do not possess. Do you think that there is a marked change taking place in Miss Mayhew?" "And so you expect me to read Miss Mayhew's secrets and gossip about them with you?" she answered with one of her piquant smiles. "What a sweetbrier you are!
So he kept steadily on and took no notice at all of a black patch by the sweetbrier bush by Beale's cottage door just exactly as if some one was crouching in the shadow. He pressed his thumb on the latch and opened the door very softly. Something moved inside and a chain rattled. Edred's heart gave a soft, uncomfortable jump. But it was only True, standing up to receive company.
But every night a sweetbrier bush threw from one tomb to the other its flowery branches. The two coffins had to be buried together." When they had passed the Badia, they saw a procession coming up the side of the hill. The wind blew on the candles borne in gilded wooden candlesticks. The girls of the societies, dressed in white and blue, carried painted banners. Then came a little St.
"Do they often mislead you?" "Indeed, sir," she replied, with a merry twinkle in her eye, "I think you must have learned the questions in the catechism, if not the answers." Van Berg bit his lip. Here was a suggestion of a thorn in the sweetbrier he believed he had discovered. "Now see how far I am astray," she resumed with a frankness which had in it no trace of familiarity.
To choose their Queen and to arrange their flowers the children would meet on the last day of April. This they did in the village where Susan lived, and their meeting-place was in a corner of a field close by a large pink hawthorn. A shady lane ran past one side of the bush. On another side a sweetbrier hedge separated it from the garden belonging to an attorney.
It was odorous with the evening dew on the vines outside and the peculiar fragrance of sweetbrier. "What an odd thing that you should have been carried off by Indians and taken to your father's house!" she began. "And this double marriage though the Church had annulled your mother's. We have heard of the White Chief, but no one could have guessed you were his child.
To remove all roots of bitterness, De la Tour married Madame de Charnise, and history does not record any ill of either of them. I trust they had the grace to plant a sweetbrier on the grave of the noble woman to whose faithfulness and courage they owe their rescue from obscurity.
Wild tulips, yellow or of broken colors; the campanula, the wild honeysuckle, lupines not yet quite in bloom the sweetbrier and increasing quantities of the wild rose gave life to the always changing scene.
Straightway, what must have been a cave swallow becomes a barn swallow; the haunter of rock ledges changes to an eave swallow; the nest in the niche of the cliff is deserted and phoebe becomes a bridgebird; cedarbirds are renamed cherrybirds, and catbirds and other low-nesting species find the blackberry patch safer than the sweetbrier vine in the deep woods.
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