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Updated: June 14, 2025
The next moment she had dropped her bundle on the flower-bed below, and was scrambling out of the low window, clinging to the window-sill, catching hold of tough stems and pliant branches, crashing down through twigs, and leaves, and flowers, on to the ground beneath.
All right, I see now," whispered Tom, and he stepped as far as he could across the flower-bed, which ran down beside the kitchen-garden, and the next minute felt the gardener's hand stretched out to take his. "Got your stick, sir?" "Yes; all right. He hasn't come then yet." "Not yet, sir. Here you are; now you can kneel down alongside o' me. Mustn't be no more talking."
As they whirled in the dance, their full bright gowns looked like an agitated flower-bed suddenly possessed by a wandering tribe of dusky goddesses. Eulogia came rather late.
It was very pretty to see the girl standing there by the roses in her light-blue summer dress, her round face pink and smiling and hatless. In the blinding sunshine her hair had a deep, warm brown like old port, and the whole picture was as richly colored as a flower-bed.
I rather think, Inspector Martin, that we have now exhausted all that this room can teach us. If you will kindly step round with me, we shall see what fresh evidence the garden has to offer." A flower-bed extended up to the study window, and we all broke into an exclamation as we approached it. The flowers were trampled down, and the soft soil was imprinted all over with footmarks.
I am so afraid that your footprints may obliterate the impressions that my father is studying. "'Oh! said I, looking about me as though I had been caught in the middle of a flower-bed; 'really I did not notice any impressions. Impressions of what? "'I don't know, she said, smiling a little at my awkward pose. 'If you step this way in a straight line you can do no damage.
The priests set up a falsetto chant, the banner-bearers lifted their staves, and the parti-colored mass moved down on them. "It's like a flower-bed on a landslide!" exclaimed Eleanor. Mark Heath gravely pulled out his left cuff and took rapid notes with a pencil. "That goes into the story anything more up your sleeve like that?" "Wasn't it good?
A vine grew upon the wall beneath me, its aged tendrils of the thickness of ropes, and it afforded a natural ladder whereby I made my descent. Arrived in the miniature jungle which at some period had been a flower-bed, I set out towards the lodge, prompted to do so by the presence of a light shining out from one of the windows through a network of leaves.
"You'll find the bunk-house, at the foot of the slope beside the creek. I'll speak to Tex as soon as he comes back." Outside the ranch house, Buck paused for a moment or two, ostensibly to stare admiringly at a carefully tended flower-bed, but in reality to adjust his mind to the new and extraordinary situation.
The garden-walks were dazzling, and the ladies went from flower-bed to flower-bed in broad garden hats that were, as an occasional light glance flung at a window-pane assured Adela, becoming.
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