Mignonette

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Bowen Marjorie. Mignonette

Mignonette

Table of Contents

PART 1

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PART 2

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THE END

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Marjorie Bowen

Published by Good Press, 2022

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As she sensed the holiday world about her she was stirred by some indefinable nostalgia for what had never been, the light joyousness of youth, adventures of the spirit and of the heart. The laughing child flying the fluttering kite of rose-colored paper seemed herself as she had never been, and so did the young girl in her pale new gown, leaning on her husband's arm.

These trembling dreams that were almost formless were overlaid by sharp memories of deaths and illness, of medical men and nurses, of brief visits from acquaintances who left fruit and flowers and were relieved to escape from hushed rooms and the odor of medicine. Memories of other flowers also, formal wreaths and crosses of white blooms that appeared never to have been grown anywhere, so unnatural seeming were they with black-edged cards attached and streamers of crepe.

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