Crossword-Solution: CARICE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The people confound this alpine scitamineous plant with the arborescent gramina, under the name of carice.

Bergan slightly raised his voice and called,-- "Carice!" "Yes, father!" was the instant answer, in a voice of peculiar richness and melody; and the next moment a young girl stood in the window, with a light shawl wrapped round her slender figure, and her hands filled with autumn flowers, just gathered.

There was a little start of surprise and of pleasure; then Carice dropped her flowers on the nearest table, and gave Bergan two cordial hands.

Never, he thought, had he seen anything quite so lovely as his cousin Carice,--with her soft, brown hair, her clear rose-complexion, her large, limpid, blue eyes, the lily-like droop of her exquisitely formed head, the inexhaustible grace of her attitudes and movements,--but he had certainly seen somebody a little like her.

When I fix the resemblance that eludes me so persistently in you," he added, turning to Carice, "I hope it will help me to answer the question." "I doubt if it does," replied Carice, quietly, yet not without a certain something in her tone that sounded almost like sarcasm.