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But when he had put Thomas to bed, in his little common cheap night-shirt, he went out into the streets with his weekly earnings in his pockets and spent them. He spent every penny he had. First he went to a florist's and bought daffodils, in great golden sheaves. Then he went to a toyshop and got a splendid family of fluffy beasts, and a musical box, and a Noah's Ark, and a flute.
"I wonder," he said, pointing to a flower-bed. Whiteside stared, then laughed. "That curious," he said. "We seem to see nothing but daffodils in this murder!" The big bed to which Tarling walked was smothered with great feathery bells that danced and swayed in the light spring breezes. "Humph!" said Tarling. "Do you know anything about daffodils, Whiteside?" Whiteside shook his head with a laugh.
As clearly as he had seen all the events of the day repeating themselves, he now saw the host of golden daffodils, "Beside the lake, beneath the trees." They obliterated the desert, with its immortal voices, its passionate appeals. He was no longer wandering lonely as a cloud. He was happy, he was one with the dancing daffodils, as he watched them "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance."
And all the time, the canary-bird in the sunshine was singing his glad song, "Spring is coming, spring is really coming," he seemed to say, "and there will be daffodils out, and tulips and Mayflowers. And the days will grow longer and longer, and more and more sunshiny." A clock on the mantelpiece struck the half-hour. That was not a joyous sound. "I guess I ought to be going," said Peggy.
Thomas did so; and Peter lay on the sofa and gazed at the daffodils in the brown jars that filled the room with light. Peter, with Thomas over his shoulder, stepped out of the little station into a radiant April world.
Everywhere there were blossoms and flowers; the pear trees and cherry trees in the sexton's garden were sunlit snow, there were nodding daffodils and early tulips in the graveyard beds, great multitudes of daisies, and everywhere the birds seemed singing. And in the middle was the brown coffin end, tilting on men's shoulders and half occluded by the vicar's Oxford hood.
Polly to the Stamton Wreckeryation ground that at least was what they called it with its handsome custodian's cottage, its asphalt paths, its Jubilee drinking fountain, its clumps of wallflower and daffodils, and so to the new cemetery and a distant view of the Surrey hills, and round by the gasworks to the canal to the factory, that presently disgorged a surprised and radiant Annie.
I must confess they are not quite like geraniums in this respect. And spring flowers are so few and so precious, one may be excused for not quite cutting them like summer flowers. But it wouldn't do only to be generous when it costs one nothing. Eh, Regie?" I laughed and said "No," which was what I was expected to say, and thanked the parson for the daffodils. He pulled out his watch.
Bob had worked hard in the garden, where already rows of vegetables showed well; Jim and Wally had aided Norah and Tommy in the making of a flower garden, laying heavy toll on Hogg's stores for the purpose; to-day it was golden and white with daffodils and narcissi and snowdrops.
The soft fitful illumination was reflected in the polished surface of the table and even in the footworn old floor; and the morning noises had begun again. Oleron made a pattern of dots on the paper before him, and then broke off to move the jar of daffodils exactly opposite the centre of a creamy panel.
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