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"I have e of

contempt in her smile and accent "Or--to drop le--it is ood All this talk about the sweetness of crushed blossorance from the wounded part, and the riven

sandal-tree, and the blessed uses of adversity, is outrageous

balderdash, according to ree better than a dead one What it is the fashion of poets and

sentimentalists to call perfu your position by means of my poor oriental

pearl," re the hand that was

beating the life and whiteness out of the floweret upon the eant de batailles, instead My

bouquet must have a cluster of pearls for a heart"

"What a fierce crimson!" Frederic remarked upon the widely-opened

rose Miss Tazewell received in place of the delicate bud "That e Herbert asserts,

'bids the rash gazer wipe his eye'"

"More poetical nonsense!" said Rosa, deliberately tearing the bold

"geant" to pieces down to the bare steazer was so rash as to come too near

the bush, and ran a thorn into the pupil"

No one answered, except by the indulgent s those accusto some leisurely additions to her bouquet in the

shape of ribbon grass and pendent ivy sprays, coaxing these with

persuasive touches to trail over the edge and entwine the pedestal