Major Lawrence, F.L.S.
by Emily Lawless (9781150076862)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: John Murray Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BOOK III. -- FIVE YEARS LATER. CHAPTER I. By the middle of November the flowers in the Tuileries garden have naturally got into their decadence. They are not, however, even in that state plucked up by the roots and hustled brutally away in wheel-barrows, as are the summer plants of our own parks, but are allowed to die, naturally, harmlessly, decently, each in its own appointed place. One morning, a traveler, newly arrived in Paris, lingered a few minutes to glance over the still pretty but melancholy parterres of petunias and geraniums thus dying leisurely upon their stalks, and over their heads at the long line of acacias and plane-trees, which also showed a somewhat dejected mien; the former altogether denuded, the latter festooned only with those tenacious little button-like balls, which long survive the leaves, and swing, no matter how bad the weather, wild the wind, hard the frost, until spring comes to loose their thread-like strands, and set free their imprisoned energies for the newly assigned task of dissemination. Our traveler -- let us have no mystery, but say at once Major Lawrence -- was not thinking of plane- trees or their habits, though he might have done so at another time. Having only just, as I have said, arrived in Paris, there were naturally more urgent matters than button-balls to lay claims to his attention. Oddly enough, he had never been there before. Although in his time he had done his fair share ...

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