I am not sentimental about garden flowers: they are cultivated for decoration, grown for clipping.' 'I suppose they don't carry the same signification,' said Dacier, in the tone of a pupil to such themes.
'They carry no feeling,' said she.

'And that is my excuse for plucking these, where they seem to spring like our town-dream of happiness.

I believe they are sensible of it too; but these must do service to my invalid friend, who cannot travel.

Are you ever as much interested in the woes of great ladies as of country damsels?
I am not--not unless they have natural distinction.

You have met Lady Dunstane ?' The question sounded artless.