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He reached the bottom of the garden without observing any sign of the lonely invalid. He looked up and down the cabbage rows, and through the long perspective of pea-vines, without result. There was a newer trail leading from a gap in the pines to the wooded hollow, which undoubtedly intersected the little path that he and Mamie had once followed from the high road.
"I ride with them there before breakfast. Fleda is up very early to gather them." "You have not been there this morning?" "Yes." "With what?" "Pease and strawberries." "And Fleda picked them?" "Yes with some help from Barby and me." "That glove of hers was wringing wet." "Yes, with the pea-vines, and strawberries too; you know they get so loaded with dew. Oh, Fleda gets more than her gloves wet.
Before us stretched a fertile bottom, covered by a fair, open walnut wood, with very little underbrush, and rising gradually to a higher bottom, which reached to a range of hills two or three hundred feet in height. Here the forest grew more closely, the underbrush became more dense, and a great thicket of pea-vines, wild grape, and trailers completely shut off the view.
The door of the cell will not open on its hinges, or, to be exact, will not yield along the line of least resistance, until the warm days return. Then the late arrivals will leave their shelter and rejoin the more impatient, and both will be ready for work when the pea-vines are in flower.
Grandmother made her wear a sunbonnet, but as soon as we reached the garden she threw it on the grass and let her hair fly in the breeze. I remember how, as we bent over the pea-vines, beads of perspiration used to gather on her upper lip like a little moustache. 'Oh, better I like to work out-of-doors than in a house! she used to sing joyfully.
If you wish to save men from any particular vice, set up a tremendous cry of warning about some other; and they will all give their special efforts to the one to which attention is called. This profound truth is about the only thing I have yet realized out of my pea-vines. However, the garden does begin to yield.
The door of the cell will not open on its hinges, or, to be exact, will not yield along the line of least resistance, until the warm days return. Then the late arrivals will leave their shelter and rejoin the more impatient, and both will be ready for work when the pea-vines are in flower.
A century ago its channel was overhung and completely concealed by a luxurious thicket of pea-vines and trailers, of bramble-bushes and the Indian plum; its edges closely fringed with the thin, tall wood-grass of summer.
Cousin's sister smiled grimly, and whispered: "He has been watching us. He saw me come here when I scratched the tree. He has been hiding The marks I made on the honey-tree Look behind it the pea-vines . Tell Shelby I send him a little sister " And she had solved all her problems, and had passed into the compassion of the manito whose gentleness and understanding surpass all comprehension.
"I ride with them there before breakfast. Fleda is up very early to gather them." "You have not been there this morning?" "Yes." "With what?" "Peas and strawberries." "And Fleda picked them?" "Yes with some help from Barby and me." "That glove of hers was wringing wet." "Yes, with the pea-vines, and strawberries too; you know they get so loaded with dew. O Fleda gets more than her gloves wet.
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