Loneli, wearing a pretty dress and carrying a huge bouquet of flowers, stepped up to Leonore.

The Cruchots all brought handsome bouquets of flowers for Eugénie, but their gifts were eclipsed by a showy workbox fitted with trumpery gilded silver fittings, which Mme. des Grassins presented, and which filled Eugénie with delight.

At Turin our guns were wreathed in flowers and at Verona the station staff presented a bouquet to the General, on whose behalf Shield made a suitable reply in Italian.

will you deign to accept this bouquet from your little friend Charlotte?" A sudden blush overspread his venerable cheeks, and as she stooped to kiss his hand, he said: "No, no, my dear child; accept rather from your old friend, your best friend, a more tender embrace.

The children all crowded around to see the little lady in a silk bonnet holding a button-hole bouquet to her bosom.

Can't a girl walk down to the loop to catch her car and stretch her legs after she's been cooped up all day, without a few of you boys throwing a bouquet or two at yourselves?"

One evening as I sat in the cafe at my supper, a poor boy came in to sell flowers; for what we must pay in this country for a drink, I bought a bouquet almost as large as a bucket, and when the next lady came to collect for the music, I gave her the bouquet as a present to the whole company.

Still that did not trouble her, she was already a very bold little damsel, and she frankly dropped her bouquet and sprang at the necks of Mathieu and Marianne, exclaiming in her shrill, flute-like voice: "Grandpapa, grandmamma, it's your fete, and I kiss you with all my heart!"

" She said this with a simplicity which made the elder lady smile, and while mademoiselle re-adjusted the tiny flowers which formed the bouquet she had just presented to her, Mrs. Marston good-naturedly recounted to her all she knew of Sir Wynston Berkley, which, in substance, amounted to no more than we have already stated.

" For a wonder, Sagastao was silent for a time; but at length he found something to say, and his words were a bit of a confession and promise of amendment: "Now that I know why it is that the prickles are on the wild roses I'll not get mad even if my fingers bleed when I am gathering a bouquet for mother.

Beth was picking a bouquet of honeysuckles, just because they were so sweet and homely.

"That isn't the way to do it; it's like handing yourself a bouquet!"

Each night the woman "Premier" took her curtain calls and received the bouquets which came showering in, but not a word could the public find out about her.

In the great oriel window stood a round mahogany table, bearing a bouquet of wax flowers under a glass shade.

" She affected not to hear, but making up a second bouquet, she gave it to him, with no touch of coquetry in compassionate eyes or gentle voice.

" The dog wagged his tail intelligently, took the bouquet carefully in his mouth, carried it to his mistress's grave, and laid it among the other flowers.

Go into any of our New England country-schools at this season of the year, and you will find a bouquet of wild flowers on the teacher's desk.

I have sold many bouquets for a dime, and very beautiful ones for fifteen and twenty cents, that would sell in the north for fifty to seventy-five cents.

"Let me pin this on you," said Dora to Dick, and fastened the small bouquet in his buttonhole.

The dinner came off, and a fine good spread it was, and as for the wine I seem to sniff its "bouquet" now.

Then, while the servants cleared the table, Gregoire achieved a great success by offering the bride a bouquet of splendid white roses, which he drew out of a bush where he had hitherto kept it hidden.

"I bade them take ensample from their Lord Of perfect manners, wearing on their helms The bouquet of a blameless Junkerhood, And be a law of culture to themselves, Though other laws, not made in Germany, Should perish, being scrapped.

He and Prudy were sitting in the doorway, arranging bouquets for the dinner-table.

She detached the bouquet from her belt and tendered it to him.

The flowers composing these bouquets, will keep for at least a fortnight as fresh and beautiful as when first gathered, and are capable of bearing long journeys, for they are constantly forwarded in boxes made expressly for them, to Turin, which is about a hundred miles from Genoa, where they arrive fresh and uninjured.