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The butler retired, and shortly appeared at the corner of the stairs beckoning to the visitor. George mounted. They passed through the outer drawing-room, and the servant drew aside the curtain of the inner room. Was it February again? The scent of hyacinth and narcissus seemed to be floating round him. There was a hasty movement, and a tall figure came with a springing step to meet him.
With Narcissus this evolution had taken place early: it was very long ago he felt old even then to think of it since Hesperus had sung like a nightingale above his first kiss, and his memory counted many trophies of lordship.
"When Narcissus died the Flowers of the Field were plunged in grief, and asked the River for drops of water that they might mourn for him. "'Oh, replied the River, 'if only my drops of water were tears, I should not have enough to weep for Narcissus myself I loved him. "'How could you help loving Narcissus? said the flowers, 'so beautiful was he. "'Was he beautiful? asked the River.
Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.
As Ranulph had surmised, the ship was the Narcissus, and its first lieutenant was Philip d'Avranche. The night before, orders had reached the vessel from the Admiralty that soundings were to be taken at the Ecrehos. The captain had at once made inquiries for a pilot, and Jean Touzel was commended to him. A messenger sent to Jean found that he had already gone to the Ecrehos.
The sunshine of heaven fell like a gift of grace on the mud of the earth, on the remembering and mute stones, on greed, selfishness; on the anxious faces of forgetful men. And to the right of the dark group the stained front of the Mint, cleansed by the flood of light, stood out for a moment dazzling and white like a marble palace in a fairy tale. The crew of the Narcissus drifted out of sight.
"From the garrison garden, sir; with the Governor's compliments, and understanding you to take an interest in bulbs." "Daffodils? Some species of narcissus, at any rate." The Lord Proprietor took one of the bulbs and examined it, turning it over. "I had no idea that Major Vigoureux er went in for this sort of thing, or I'd have done myself the pleasure of visiting his garden."
Then, I was coming home through the Ladies' Garden, and I found my Hugh playing Narcissus over a pool, and wondering whether freckles were dirt on his soul that came out in spots the lamb! And I had to stay and talk with him a bit, and he was so dear! And then I walked along, and just as I came to the gap in the hedge, Mrs.
These prisoners are in our way, and the admiral will welcome an opportunity to load them all aboard the empty Narcissus, for even prisoners of war must eat, and the stores aboard our fleet are more valuable than these captured seamen. In obedience to that first law of human nature they will not object to working the Narcissus into the nearest South American port."
"I wonder, where such perfection is possible," said I, "that they tolerate that." "They're not going to very much longer," said Adonis, and then he laughed. "Narcissus queered himself last season at the palace. Jove sent for him to trim his beard, and he nearly cut one of the old man's ears off.
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