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"I haven't so many good features that I could afford to spoil those I have; so, even if I should marry the King of the Cannibal Islands, I promise you I won't turn up my nose at you, Diana." With another gay laugh the girls separated, Diana to return to Orchard Slope, Anne to walk to the Post Office.
Geoffrey thrust his guest into a chair. "That explains it. This is Orchard Valley; the other place is away across the province, a forlorn hamlet, and some ox-driving postmaster has no doubt returned your letter. Do you bring bad news? Don't keep me in suspense." "Anthony Thurston's dead.
"I'm looking for Farmer Green's vegetable garden. Do you know where it is?" "Indeed I do!" Mrs. Ladybug cried. "It's at the end of this orchard, just beyond the fence." "And the potato patch I suppose I'll have no trouble finding that?" the stranger went on. "Follow your nose!" said Mrs. Ladybug. "You're headed right for it now." The stranger thanked her. And he was about to move on.
Her long hair fell over her like a mantle, and in my dream I stroked it pityingly and murmured words of comfort for a sorrow I did not understand.... Then I woke suddenly as one does from dreams. The moon was shining brightly into the room. Rising from my bed, I looked out into the orchard. It was almost as bright as day.
After breakfast Jeffrey turned to Lydia and said quite simply: "Come into the orchard and walk a little." But to Lydia, Anne saw, with a mild surprise, his asking must have meant something not so simple. Her face flushed all over, and a misty sweetness, like humility and gratitude, came into her eyes. Jeffrey, too, caught that morning glow, only to find his task the sadder.
In addition to the Moors and Susi traders, there were many slaves, black as coal, brought in times past from the Soudan. From garden and orchard beyond the city the fruit and flowers and vegetables were being carried into their respective markets, and as they passed the air grew suddenly fragrant with a scent that was almost intoxicating.
It is a hard job to get young trees to start among old trees and you are apt to get a mixed lot of trees which you will not be proud of. Cut back as suggested or rip out, plow deeply and start anew, placing the rows midway between the old rows. Will He Have Peaches? I have a young orchard between five and six years old, mostly of the Lovell variety. I didn't have much of a crop this year.
Nothing that had ever happened to him as Reuben Merryweather would he care to live over; but he was glad at the end that he had been a part of the spring and had not missed seeing the little green leaves break out in the orchard. And then while he sat there, half dreaming and half awake, the stillness grew suddenly full of the singing of blue birds.
He was in good circumstances, and always glad to receive us at his house, as this made him, virtually, the chief of our tribe, and the outlay for refreshments involved only the apples from his own orchard and water from his well. There was an entire absence of conventionality at our meetings, and this, compared with the somewhat stiff society of the village, was really an attraction.
The make-believe cream and milk went all over him. Such a wet, cross, disgusted rooster you never saw! "Too-ok, too-ok, too-ok," he croaked, as he shook the soapsuds from his feathers. Then away he marched, scolding to himself about little girls who played silly games. One afternoon the children were out in the orchard playing "lady." Mary and Betty were the mothers in the game.
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