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Knowing, as we do, every plant and its place, having taken just pride in its summer bloom, having preserved this by cares and trimmings and proppings to a picturesque and florid autumn, though wild-flowers have long been shrivelled and shapeless, having tidied it up and put a little something comforting round it when bloom and outline were absolutely no more: what must we feel when we first detect the ruddy young shoots of our favourite pæonies, or perceive that the brown old hepaticas have become green and young again and are full of flower-buds?
"So long as I can do something for your family," she was saying, as she hammered at it, when a voice called melodiously in the passage: "Mrs. Chailey! Mrs. Chailey!" Chailey instantly tidied her dress, composed her face, and opened the door. "I'm in a fix," said Mrs. Ambrose, who was flushed and out of breath. "You know what gentlemen are.
Wallas amused himself by reading over the directions for restoring life to the apparently drowned, and Wester tidied up Bowler's study and helped him make up the stores into seven equal brown-paper packages, writing the name of the owner of each on the outside. This done, the preparations were pronounced as complete as they could be till Monday dawned.
I don't suppose that room 'ad ever been tidied up so thoroughly since the Prettys 'ad lived there, but Dicky Weed couldn't see anything o' the watch, and wot made 'im more angry than anything else was Mrs. Pretty setting down in a chair with 'er 'ands folded in her lap and pointing out places that he 'adn't done. "You leave 'im alone," ses Bob. "He knows wot 'e's arter.
Eileen ran to the potato bag in the corner and took out four good-sized potatoes. "There's but three of us," she said to herself, "but Larry will surely be wanting two, himself." She got down on her knees and buried the potatoes in the burning peat. Then she took a little broom that stood near by, and tidied up the hearth. Larry took the kettle to the well for more water.
The air hung dull and lifeless. The chairs stood stiff against the wall, the watching books had no greeting. Only Yorick swung and flapped in his cage, his throat full of mutterings. It is all very well to be a good loser. But loss is bitter. Here was loss, stark and staring. Spence walked over to the neatly tidied desk and there, for an instant, the cold finger lifted from his heart.
And so I should instantly have done, perhaps, if it hadn't been for Biddy's eyes seeming to come between mine and Miss Gilder's: and the fact that at the moment I was in quest of another treasure than a woman's heart. So I put off falling in love with Rosamond Gilder till I should have seen Anthony, and tidied up my distracted mind.
"Now sleep, my darling; and when I've just tidied your things for the morning, I will be with you." The wanderer again obeyed, and in a few moments the work of the past two days befriended her, and she was asleep. Then the sister went to her task with the soiled frock and the soiled shoes, and looked up things clean and decent for the morrow.
"But it's all right now?" "I think so." "You only think? You aren't sure? I do love these little muddles tidied up?" "Oh yes, I'm sure," said Mrs. Wilcox, moving with uneasiness beneath the clothes. "I always sound uncertain over things. It is my way of speaking." "That's all right, and I'm sure too." Here the maid came in to remove the breakfast-tray.
Beneath scented trees the angels were scattered about disconsolately. There were black rims under their eyes; it was easy to see they had been worrying. Their beautiful white gowns had come unstarched; it was many days since they had tidied themselves. There wasn't a sound of any sort least of all of music.
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