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Having disposed of these three gentlemen, I flattered myself that I was temporarily done with the vexatious details of insurance, and I was getting ready to bank up one of the flowerbeds with black dirt when who should come along but another neighbor, and a very charming one, too Angus Cameron Macleod? For two years we have been more or less intimate.
I like this mode of disposing of dead bodies; but it would be still better to burn them and scatter the ashes, instead of hoarding them up, to scatter them over wheat-fields or flowerbeds.
She had time to work out of doors in the flowerbeds and to get dainty little suppers, sometimes, for daddy. Yet, at other times she was very tired. She showed daddy a cheerful countenance almost always. But there were occasions when Janice Day felt anything but cheerful "inside," as she expressed it.
History has lent its hand to the process, too; and romance it is not an insipid chain of flowerbeds we have to follow, but the holy warriors of Saint Louis, the roistering braves of Henry the Great, the gallant Bourbons, the ill-starred Bonapartes.
Quiet and wakeful stood the fruit trees in the patches of turf, and the hollyhocks in the flowerbeds, and the moonlight laid a festive touch on the silent garden. Billy wanted to be out there. She dressed hurriedly and went to Marion's room to wake her: "Marion, and you can sleep? I have not closed an eye, come, get up." "I just fell asleep a little," said Marion in excuse, "what has happened?
Seeing no one among the fruit-trees and flowerbeds, she began to despair; but the thick grove at the bottom of the garden gave her promise that was a likely place of meeting capital for such a purpose, as the mestiza, experienced in such matters, well knew. To approach the grove, however, presented a difficulty. There was a space of open ground a green parterre between it and the flowerbeds.
But presently, when they had come to what the Banner called the "residential district," she was cheered by the sight of the green lawns, the flowerbeds and shrubbery, the mansions of those inhabitants of Hampton unfamiliar with boardinghouses and tenements. Before one of these she paused, retaining Janet by the arm, exclaiming wistfully: "Wouldn't you like to live there?
Perhaps a grand bedchamber was likewise built out from the others, so that it might have the warmth of the sun upon it through the entire day. Connected with the establishment were walks ornamented with flowerbeds, closely clipped hedges, and trees tortured into all sorts of unnatural shapes. One is mentioned that sold for some $200,000, chiefly because it comprised a desirable fish-pond.
You ought to hear him talk about the tariff, and national politics. I was passing there the other day, and he was walking around among the flowerbeds. 'Ain't your name Tooting? he hollered. I almost fell out of the buggy." "What did he want?" asked Austen, curiously. Mr. Tooting winked. "Say, those millionaires are queer, and no mistake.
I had hard work for a few minutes to throw the impression off. But the garden was lovely, and tea being over, we all busied ourselves in rifling the flowerbeds to dress the dinner table. If we were going in two days, where was the good of leaving the flowers to die alone? I don't suppose that it was strange that the table conversation was all reminiscent.
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