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"If you ain't scared," he grunted, "to ride alongside a man as swears, so help him God, in spite of smash-bang-an'-be-damn', is goin' to make that little run back to Red Creek in less'n fifty minutes!" "Mind you," said old man Packard at the front door, his eye stony as it marked how Terry's car stood among his choice roses, "I ain't doin' this because I got any use for a Temple, he or she.
The air was sweet with a thousand mingled scents of summer flowers: carnations, stocks, roses, and jasmine. The creamy clusters of Perpetual Felicity rioted over the corner turret of the terrace, where a crumbling stair led to the top of a small, half-ruined observatory, which tradition called the look-out tower.
It's this little garden patch and the son out West that makes life worth livin' for him, in spite of Son in Law Bennett. "Say, Dudley," says I, "why don't you work a combination of the two; go out where you can raise roses all winter, if the dope these railroad ads. sling out is straight, and be with your son too?"
The spade, and hoe, and fork were very useful. He showed her how to use the fork while he dug about roots with the spade and stirred the earth and let the air in. They were working industriously round one of the biggest standard roses when he caught sight of something which made him utter an exclamation of surprise. "Why!" he cried, pointing to the grass a few feet away. "Who did that there?"
It brought me down to bed rock, for I was making a conceited ass of myself that's all, in thinking I could have roses for fodder instead of thistles and just for the asking! It did me no end of good. I shall never rush in again where even angels fear to tread except softly I mean the male wingless kind worth a couple of millions; she has seven in her own right. But we're the best of friends."
"These." And she touched rightly the bowl in which my roses stood close beside Eliza's ledger. Eliza paused for one second. "Those are not for sale." Hortense paused, too. Then she hung to it. "They are so much the best." She was holding her purse. "I think so, too," said Eliza. "But I cannot let any one have them." Hortense put her purse away. "You know best.
Juliet stood there, her hands full of roses, her face flushed and brilliant with smiles. "How delightful to find you here!" she exclaimed, coming swiftly across to Wingrave. "I do hope you won't mind my coming. Normandy is off, and I have nowhere else to go." She saw Lady Ruth and stopped. "Oh! I beg your pardon!" she exclaimed. "I did not know."
It was most undignified of me, but in five minutes I excused myself, and sent to the State Department the following words: "Roses red, violets blue, send snow." Later at the State Department the only person who did not eventually pardon my jest was the clerk who had sat up until three in the morning with my cable, trying to fit it to any known code.
The body of the stove itself was divided into panels, which had the Ages of Man painted on them in polychrome; the borders of the panels had roses and holly and laurel and other foliage, and German mottoes in black letter of odd Old World moralizing, such as the old Teutons, and the Dutch after them, love to have on their chimney-places and their drinking cups, their dishes and flagons.
Having forgotten to mention this, when she had last seen Sergeant Cuff, my mistress now desired me to supply the omission. I didn't see much use in stirring that subject again. However, I obeyed my orders on the spot, as a matter of course. I found Sergeant Cuff and the gardener, with a bottle of Scotch whisky between them, head over ears in an argument on the growing of roses.
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