[The Red Lily by Anatole France]@TWC D-Link bookThe Red Lily CHAPTER III 28/40
A warm air bathed the room.
The roses shed their leaves on the cloth.
More ardent thoughts mounted to the brain. General Lariviere fell into dreams. "When public clamor has split my ears," he said to his neighbor, "I shall go to live at Tours.
I shall cultivate flowers." He flattered himself on being a good gardener; his name had been given to a rose.
This pleased him highly. Schmoll asked again if they knew the parable of the three rings. The Princess rallied the Deputy. "Then you do not know, Monsieur Garain, that one does the same things for very different reasons ?" Montessuy said she was right. "It is very true, as you say, Madame, that actions prove nothing.
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