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Updated: June 1, 2025
This, then, was the scene in which the soul of a little child was planted, not as in an ordinary open flower-border or carefully tended social parterre, but as on a ledge, split in the granite of some mountain.
The garden lay on the side of the house, and was well kept and full of flowers; but the temporary building erected by Mr. Logan rather spoiled the view from the back of the house, though a gay flower-border surrounded it. Elizabeth, who had procured the key from the servant, now opened the door.
And you, Ronsard, must make the best of things, and meet fate with calmness. To-day, for instance, I am here by the King's command, I bear his orders, and I have come for Gloria. They want her at the Palace." Ronsard stepped out of his flower-border, and stood on the greensward amazed, and indignantly suspicious. "They want her at the Palace!" he repeated; "Why? What for? To do her harm?
They were walking on the flagged path by the flower-border under the house. Mamma walked slowly, with meditative pauses, and bright, sidelong glances for her flowers. "If only," she said, "he could work without trampling the flowers down." The sun was shining on the flagged path. Mamma was stooping over the bed; she had lifted the stalk of the daffodil up out of the sunk print of Roddy's boot.
From where Beth sat to do her French at the end of the table, she could see the soft green turf, a bright flower-border, and an old brick wall, mellowed in tone by age, behind it; and a little to the left, a high, thick screen of tall shrubs of many varieties, set so close that all the different shades of green melted into each other.
Centuries of sunshine seem to have melted into the rich reds and grays and cream-color of its walls, under which runs a quarter of a mile of flower-border, a glowing mass of color, yet as full of delicate and varied detail as the border of an illuminated missal.
She rose with serene reluctance. "It's a pity to go in. The garden looks so lovely." They lingered side by side, surveying their domain. There was not space in it, at this hour, for the shadow of the elm-tree in the angle of the hedge; it crossed the lawn, cut the flower-border in two, and ran up the side of the house to the nursery window.
"Were there ramblers twenty years ago? I want it as nearly as possible just as it was. Mrs. Daggett told me yesterday about the flower-border here. You of course you don't remember the place at all; do you?" He reddened slightly under her intent gaze. "Oh, I remember something about it," he told her; "the garden was a long time going down.
As the entrance to this from the road is at the side, the path goes round the corner into the little plot of ground. Underneath the windows is a narrow flower-border, carefully tended in days of yore, although only the most hardy plants could be made to grow there.
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