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I am dressed in white -- white camellias in my hair, and another in my hand. My mother has red camellias; so it would not be impossible to take one from her -- if I wished! I have a strange longing to put off the decision to the last moment, and make him pay for his red camellia by a little suspense.
What a vision of beauty! Griffith begged me to stop for a little and be admired. The solemn crisis of the evening and the drama of my secret reply have given me a color; on each cheek I sport a red camellia laid upon a white!