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The mail had brought from Nice a cardboard box of flowers. The study was hot and close despite the open windows, so when I opened it the scent of the roses filled the air with a new fragrance. I took out the spray on the top, a magnificent cluster of great pink Bengal roses; but the day of glory of this kind is a short one, and the journey was long; the mere motion of lifting the spray finished the work of destruction. I held in my hand only a bare stock, whilst the moss green carpet was scattered with the great petals of the flowers.
This short story is reprinted from Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper [London] (July 17, 1898): 16 [chapter 1], and Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper (July 24, 1898): 16 [chapter 2].
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Stoker, B. (2012). Bengal Roses (1898). In: Browning, J.E. (eds) The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137330840_6
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