OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS 



others according to their shapes and 

 shades, while others, lastly, mingled, 

 according to the happy chances of the 

 wind and the sun, the most hostile and 

 murderous colours, in order to show 

 that nature acknowledges no disso- 

 nance and that all that lives creates its 

 own harmony. 



From its twelve rounded windows, 

 with their shining panes, their muslin 

 curtains, their broad green shutters, the 

 long, painted house, pink and gleam- 

 ing as a shell, watched them wake at 

 dawn and throw off the brisk diamonds 

 of the dew and then close at night un- 

 der the blue darkness that falls from 

 the stars. One felt that it took an in- 

 telligent pleasure in this gentle, daily 



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