For some days now wreaths had been piled one on top of
another on the hall table. In the dimness--all the blinds were drawn--the
flowers gleamed; and the hall smelt with the amorous intensity of a hot-house.
Wreath after wreath, they kept arriving. There were lilies with broad bars of
gold in them; others with spotted throats sticky with honey; white tulips,
white lilac--flowers of all kinds, some with petals as thick as velvet, others
transparent, paper-thin; but all white, and clubbed together, head to head, in
circles, in ovals, in crosses so that they scarcely looked like flowers.
Black-edged cards were attached to them.
The
Years (78-9)
January 22, 1897:
Diamond Jubilee; January 22, 1901: Queen Victoria dies
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