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Quotation from The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence
“It was chrysanthemums when I married him, and chrysanthemums when you were born, and the first time they ever brought him home drunk, he’d got brown chrysanthemums in his button-hole.”
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, Odour of Chrysanthemums (Project Gutenberg #22480 (Duckworth, 1914))
Elizabeth tells her daughter why the flowers are not beautiful to her, before she knows her husband is dead.
Citation: "It was chrysanthemums when I married him, and chrysanthemums when you were born, and the first time they ever brought him home drunk, he’d got brown chrysanthemums in his button-hole." — D. H. Lawrence, The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, Odour of Chrysanthemums (Project Gutenberg #22480 (Duckworth, 1914)). (id lawrence-the-prussian-officer-q5)
Portrait: D H Lawrence passport photograph, Unknown photographer (passport office), Public domain.
