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He was frequently, in fact, obliged to take his colour-box into the Botanical Gardens, and there, on his stool, in the shade of a monkey-puzzler or in the lee of some India-rubber plant, he would spend long hours sketching.
Look at a monkey-puzzler, or better still, a holly. Look at it, watch it, understand it. Did you ever see more plainly an evil thought made visible? They're wicked. Beautiful too, oh yes! There's a strange, miscalculated beauty often in evil " "That cedar, then ?" "Not evil, no; but alien, rather. Cedars grow in forests all together. The poor thing has drifted, that is all."
Of a sudden we heard voices behind the tree the fine full tones of the unembarrassed English, speaking to their equals that tore through the hedge like sleet through rafters. "That it is not called 'monkey-puzzler' for nothing, I willingly concede" this was a rich and rolling note "but on the other hand "
He was frequently, in fact, obliged to take his colour-box into the Botanical Gardens, and there, on his stool, in the shade of a monkey-puzzler or in the lee of some India-rubber plant, he would spend long hours sketching.
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