[Sidenote: Les Jeunes Filles] Of course the Baronne had arranged for the Vicomte to take me in; and our table was pink and white carnations.

It was like a delicate carnation upon the cheek of a robust man.

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The firelight danced cheerfully upon the polished three-wicked lucernae burning cleanly with the best oil, upon the whitewashed walls, and the bunches of scarlet carnations set in glass goblets.

Several weeks passed thus, Henry and Julia seeing each other every day; but long vacation would arrive; and on the evening preceding his departure from , the lovelorn student, twisting round the stem of a spicy carnation, a leaf which he had torn from his pocket book, thus conveyed, with his farewell to Julia, an intimation that he designed upon his return to college next term, to effect an introduction to her family.

What a splendid carnation on her cheeks!

Within the garden's cultured round It shares the sweet carnation's bed; And blooms on consecrated ground In honour of the dead.

No, not a rose, nor a lily, nor a violet; you remind me rather of a tall delicate pale carnation...." "Why, John, I never heard you speak like that before; I thought you never paid compliments.

He possessed the voice of a stentor, a short, thick-set, broad-shouldered person, a face congested to a violent carnation, and red hair of such a color as to add infinitely to the consuming fire of his countenance.

There were about twelve tables, three of different coloured carnations for the "jeunes filles," and the rest with roses for the married people.

Oh, ye carnations!

"Flush'd by the spirit of the genial year, Now from the virgin's cheek a fresher bloom Shoots, less and less, the live carnation round.

No, not a rose, nor a lily, nor a violet; you remind me rather of a tall delicate pale carnation...." "Why, John, I never heard you speak like that before; I thought you never paid compliments.