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Updated: May 14, 2025
A look of greed crept into his face, as he made hurriedly for the back-doorway. "Liz!" he called. "Yes, gran'fer." "Where've yer been?" "Been to school." "Brought any wood?"
He had invested in past years many a shilling in hollyhock seed, but never till now had a plant bloomed in his garden. "He rubbed his eyes, I say. But there stood the hollyhock. He rushed from the room, through the back-doorway and down the garden. My excellent mother, aroused from her siesta by the slamming of the door, dropped the Family Bible from her lap, and tottered in pursuit.
It was as if, unknown to herself, it harmonized with the pictures and thoughts that sat with her there alone in the firelight. She turned the cakes over, while the wind hurled down a row of bricks from the gable, and made the walls tremble. Presently she paused and listened; there was a sound as of something knocking at the back-doorway.
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