" "Laura" began Violet in protest.

" A passage which is almost identical to one in the "Satires" of Persius (i. 39): "E tumulo fortunataque favilla, Nascentur violae;" And an idea, too, which Tennyson seems to have borrowed: "And from his ashes may be made, The violet of his native land.

" "Oh, but I don't want to go up in the spooky upstairs part," whispered Violet to Billie, as she scraped some odds and ends off on a plate.

An anonymous letter had made an appointment for Louis with the lady of the violets at the masked ball, and from this person he was informed again not only of Emilie's infidelity, but further, that M. de Château-Renard had wagered he would bring her to supper at D's.

"When the spring brings sweet delights, When aloft the lark doth rise, Lovers woo o' mellow nights, And youths peep in maidens' eyes, That time blooms the eglantine, Daisies pied upon the hill, Cowslips fair and columbine, Dusky violets by the rill.

The violet on the leas, And bares her bosom In the blossoming trees, And dances on her way To laugh with May Winter that hath no bird To sing thee, and no bloom To deck thy brow: To me thou art an empty haunted room, Where once the music Of the summer stirred, And all the dancers Fallen on silence now.

O lilies from Jenny's white coffin, O little chrysanthemum that lay in her bosom, O violets from Jenny's tomb, pierce with your faithful breath this cloud of incense that is enwrapping Jenny's lover.

She knew how to stare a man out of countenance with big purple eyes that were like violets with the dew on them, and keep her paltry pink-and-white baby face all pensive

Then he laughed at the wide-eyed look of wonder she gave him as he begged a violet for his coat.

" For several moments he stood thoughtfully turning the flowers to and fro in his hands; then, as if deciding some question within himself, he said, still smiling, "It is just a year since she went home; she must have accomplished something in that time; I'll take the violets as a sign that I may go and ask her what.

GRACE W. LEACH Madisonensis. ~By the Roadside.~ Shy violets among the tangled grass; Red robin, to thine own mate blithely singing, Among the elm-tree boughs so gayly swinging; My love, my true love, down this way will pass.

In the western counties, for instance, one should never take less than a handful of primroses or violets into a farmer's house, as neglect of this rule is said to affect the success of the ducklings and chickens.

A soft blaze of violet like the color of the robe he wore became faintly visible in the air.

No translation ever smelt less of the lamp, and more of the violet than this.

White Violets like a chalky soil.

In a few minutes, from hill to hill, from mosque to mosque, down to the end of the Golden Horn, all the minarets, one after the other, turn rose color; all the domes, one by one, are silvered, the flush descends from terrace to terrace, the tremulous light spreads, the great veil melts, and all Stamboul appears, rosy and resplendent upon her heights, blue and violet along the shores, fresh and young, as if just risen from the waters.

"The violet beside me Bloomed with its purple cup, And a tiny face, so lovely, Amidst its leaves peeped up.

I got Violet out of the room as soon as I could.

Félicité put Virginia's luggage on top of the carriage, gave the coachman some instructions, and smuggled six jars of jam, a dozen pears and a bunch of violets under the seat.

So unsuspected violets Within the fields lie low, Too late for striving fingers That passed, an hour ago. VIII.

A stanza from one of his lyrics may be appropriately citedRemembrance, dated 1821: 'Lilies for a bridal bed, Roses for a matron's head, Violets for a maiden dead, Pansies let my flowers be.

The characters in the romance live and love in a Utopian Arcadia, where "the morning did strow Roses and Violets in the heavenly floor against the coming of the Sun," and where the shepherd boy pipes "as though he should never be old.

" "If you will promise on your word of honor not to laugh at me," said Violet after another short silence, "I'll tell you that I have another idea.