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Next morning she planned to go sketching; but no, there were three more detestable books to be put into nasty little black cotton coats, the drawing-room to be dusted all the hateful china the peas to be shelled for dinner. She shelled the peas in the garden. It was a beautiful green garden, and lovers could have walked very happily down the lilac-bordered paths.
Miss Larrabee came down the lilac-bordered walk from the stately old brick house, carrying a great bouquet of sweet peas and nasturtiums and poppies and phlox, a fleeting memory of some association she had in her mind of Uncle Jimmy Purdy and Aunt Martha kept tantalising her.
The contents of one lilac-bordered envelope brought to his eyes a faint smile. Did he know asked the sender of this could he know the consternation he had caused in so many persons, including herself? What was she to believe? And wouldn't he lunch with her on Thursday? Mrs. Ferguson's letter brought another smile more thoughtful.
"Oh, dear me! dear me!" cried the parson's wife, in a great fright. "Peletiah, here are the letters from the Pepper children" thrusting them into his hand "do you stay and read them to Grandma. And be sure to tell her why I went home," and she actually ran out of the kitchen, and down the lilac-bordered path.
The contents of one lilac-bordered envelope brought to his eyes a faint smile. Did he know asked the sender of this could he know the consternation he had caused in so many persons, including herself? What was she to believe? And wouldn't he lunch with her on Thursday? Mrs. Ferguson's letter brought another smile more thoughtful.
So that by the time she felt morally free to spend the rest of the afternoon as she pleased, she was not at all sorry for Marthy for having lost Minervy; instead, she was sorry for herself for having been betrayed into rashness and for being deprived of a playmate. "I don't s'pose Marthy doctored her right, at all," she considered pitilessly, as she returned down the lilac-bordered path.
He could not imagine why, in one short hour, he had dropped from heaven to the very depths of Hades, as it were. Varrick breathed freely when he saw him leave the house and walk slowly down the lilac-bordered path and out through the arched gate-way. A little later Jessie came flying into the library. Varrick was still seated at the table, poring over his books. "Where is Mr.
She no doubt loved the lambent-eyed gentleman to distraction; the kiosk was their only refuge, and the whole affair was being so discreetly managed that neither the lambent-eyed gentleman nor his houri would be obliged to escape by means of the lilac-bordered path in the rear on this or any other morning. And if they should, what did it matter to me?
When he had bowed to the lady and to her father, and had gone out of the room and down the lilac-bordered path and through the gate, and when the three at the window had watched him turn into Duke of Gloucester Street, the master of Westover looked at the master of Fair View and burst out laughing.
The contents of one lilac-bordered envelope brought to his eyes a faint smile. Did he know asked the sender of this could he know the consternation he had caused in so many persons, including herself? What was she to believe? And wouldn't he lunch with her on Thursday? Mrs. Ferguson's letter brought another smile more thoughtful.
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