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The sun's rays hit the surface of the waves at a fairly oblique angle, decomposing by refraction as though passing through a prism; and when this light came in contact with flowers, rocks, buds, seashells, and polyps, the edges of these objects were shaded with all seven hues of the solar spectrum.
There I saw again, but not yet pressed and dried like the Nautilus's specimens, some peacock's tails spread open like fans to stir up a cooling breeze, scarlet rosetangle, sea tangle stretching out their young and edible shoots, twisting strings of kelp from the genus Nereocystis that bloomed to a height of fifteen meters, bouquets of mermaid's cups whose stems grew wider at the top, and a number of other open-sea plants, all without
flowers.
These various types of shrubbery were as big as trees in the temperate zones; in the damp shade between them, there were clustered actual bushes of moving flowers, hedges of zoophytes in which there grew stony coral striped with twisting furrows, yellowish sea anemone from the genus Caryophylia with translucent tentacles, plus anemone with grassy tufts from the genus Zoantharia; and to complete the illusion, minnows flitted from branch to branch like a swarm of hummingbirds, while there rose underfoot, like a covey of snipe, yellow fish from the genus Lepisocanthus with bristling jaws and sharp scales, flying gurnards, and pinecone fish.
I rushed to the window and saw crusts of coral: fungus coral, siphonula coral, alcyon coral, sea anemone from the genus Caryophylia, plus myriads of charming fish including greenfish, damselfish, sweepers, snappers, and squirrelfish; underneath this coral covering I detected some rubble the old dredges hadn't been able to tear free-- iron stirrups, anchors, cannons, shells, tackle from a capstan, a stempost, all objects hailing from the wrecked ships and now carpeted in moving
flowers.
Our path was bordered by hopelessly tangled bushes, formed from snarls of shrubs all covered with little star-shaped, white-streaked
flowers.
But if my hands came near the moving
flowers
of these sensitive, lively creatures, an alarm would instantly sound throughout the colony.
The white petals retracted into their red sheaths, the
flowers
vanished before my eyes, and the bush changed into a chunk of stony nipples.
We passed freely under their lofty boughs, lost up in the shadows of the waves, while at our feet organ-pipe coral, stony coral, star coral, fungus coral, and sea anemone from the genus Caryophylia formed a carpet of
flowers
all strewn with dazzling gems.
There were heliotropes, very remiss at living up to their sun-worshipping reputations since no sunlight ever reached them; their clusters of
flowers
drooped sadly, their colors and scents were faded.
The soul of a flower is its scent, and those splendid water plants,
flowers
of the sea, have no souls!
She spoke to him, too, of her mother, of the country, and even showed him the bed in the garden where, on the first Friday of every month, she gathered
flowers
to put on her mother's tomb.
A canary yellow paper, relieved at the top by a garland of pale flowers, was puckered everywhere over the badly stretched canvas; white calico curtains with a red border hung crossways at the length of the window; and on the narrow mantelpiece a clock with a head of Hippocrates shone resplendent between two plate candlesticks under oval shades.
Charles noticed it; he took it and carried it up to the attic, while Emma seated in an arm-chair (they were putting her things down around her) thought of her bridal
flowers
packed up in a bandbox, and wondered, dreaming, what would be done with them if she were to die.
This nature, positive in the midst of its enthusiasms, that had loved the church for the sake of the flowers, and music for the words of the songs, and literature for its passional stimulus, rebelled against the mysteries of faith as it grew irritated by discipline, a thing antipathetic to her constitution.
A fair young woman sat in a high-backed chair in a corner; and gentlemen with
flowers
in their buttonholes were talking to ladies round the fire.
Emma, on entering, felt herself wrapped round by the warm air, a blending of the perfume of
flowers
and of the fine linen, of the fumes of the viands, and the odour of the truffles.
Endless sarabands ran through her head, and, like an Indian dancing girl on the
flowers
of a carpet, her thoughts leapt with the notes, swung from dream to dream, from sadness to sadness.
Wallflowers had sprung up between the bricks, and with the tip of her open sunshade Madame Bovary, as she passed, made some of their faded
flowers
crumble into a yellow dust, or a spray of overhanging honeysuckle and clematis caught in its fringe and dangled for a moment over the silk.
The clerk, too, had his small hanging garden; they saw each other tending their
flowers
at their windows.
She was so sad and so calm, at once so gentle and so reserved, that near her one felt oneself seized by an icy charm, as we shudder in churches at the perfume of the
flowers
mingling with the cold of the marble.
She remembered the great candlesticks that rose above the vases full of
flowers
on the altar, and the tabernacle with its small columns.
Then the sun reappeared, the hens clucked, sparrows shook their wings in the damp thickets, and the pools of water on the gravel as they flowed away carried off the pink
flowers
of an acacia.
The ploughman revived, but Justin's syncope still lasted, and his eyeballs disappeared in the pale sclerotics like blue
flowers
in milk.
"Why these festoons, these flowers, these garlands?
Her desires, her sorrows, the experience of pleasure, and her ever-young illusions, that had, as soil and rain and winds and the sun make
flowers
grow, gradually developed her, and she at length blossomed forth in all the plenitude of her nature.
They went at a walking-pace because of the great flag-stones, and on the ground there were bouquets of flowers, offered you by women dressed in red bodices.
One day, when at the height of her illness, she had thought herself dying, and had asked for the communion; and, while they were making the preparations in her room for the sacrament, while they were turning the night table covered with syrups into an altar, and while Felicite was strewing dahlia
flowers
on the floor, Emma felt some power passing over her that freed her from her pains, from all perception, from all feeling.
The theatre rang with cheers; they recommenced the entire movement; the lovers spoke of the
flowers
on their tomb, of vows, exile, fate, hopes; and when they uttered the final adieu, Emma gave a sharp cry that mingled with the vibrations of the last chords.
With him, through all the kingdoms of Europe she would have travelled from capital to capital, sharing his fatigues and his pride, picking up the
flowers
thrown to him, herself embroidering his costumes.
I often saw them again as of yore, when on the summer mornings the sun beat down upon your blinds, and I saw your two bare arms passing out amongst the flowers."
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