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In the afternoon Andrew Truffey laid a splendid bunch of cottage-flowers on his desk, and the next morning it was so crowded with offerings of the same sort that he had quite a screen behind which to conceal his emotion. Wonderful, let me say once more, is the divine revenge! The children would wipe away the humiliation of their tyrant.
But to the knot of his sea-kit there was tied a bunch of cottage-flowers sweet williams, boy's love, love-lies-bleeding, a few common striped carnations, and a rose or two and the sight and smell of them in that frowsy 'bus were like tears on thirsty eyelids.
There was, at all events, a big old-fashioned garden full of vegetables and cottage-flowers, at the back of the house, in which I almost lived in Spring and Summer-time, and from which I managed to extract a great deal of enjoyment; while for companions and playmates I had old Karl, my aunt's gardener, a pigeon-house full of pigeons, three staid elderly cats, and a tortoise.
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