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"He-country and beautiful!" he interrupted. "The other half is desert." "Ever see the Mojave in the late afternoon from the top of the Tejon Pass?" he challenged. "The wild, barbaric beauty of it? And with water it would be a garden-spot." "Of course your valleys are wonderful." "Gracias, señorita." "But the bare brown hills in summer-time and the ghost-rivers of the South!
When he had completed it, and was beginning to enjoy it, the owners of the plots he had confiscated awoke to a sense of their loss and the excellent garden-spot this young Corsican had made for them. "For of course," they said, "the garden-plots are ours. Straw Nose has improved them at his own risk. What he has made we will keep for our own pleasure."
One of his first visits after reaching home was to his old black "Mammy," in the tiny cottage, with its prolific garden-spot, on the outskirts of the town, in which Mr. Allan had installed her and her husband, "Uncle Billy," before leaving Virginia. "Mammy" was expecting him.
"And I," said a yellow-haired and sallow-faced man, who was not of this party at all, and who had been quietly smoking a short black pipe by the fire during their magnificent conversation "and I was born in the garden-spot of America." "Where is that?" they said. "SKEOUHEGAN, MAINE!" he replied; "kin I sell you a razor strop?"
It is wonderful how many pleasant incidents continually came to pass in that secluded garden-spot when once Phoebe had set herself to look for them. She had seen or heard a bee there, on the first day of her acquaintance with the place.
The side window looked out into a shady little garden-spot, in the front corner of which grew a grand old elm, which reached around with beneficent, beautiful branches, and screened also a part of the street aspect.
And the snow disappeared from the streets and from the garden-spot which was all green underneath, and by the time the crocuses were up health and happiness reigned once more in the cottage. But it was a happiness with a difference. A happiness which for all it was so sweet, was tinctured with the bitter of remorse.
Jefferson and there was a note of sadness in his voice "I think there is no land like it, no rivers so broad and deep, no woods so green and wild, no soil so fertile, no climate so delightful. I wish I might show you but one garden-spot of it my Virginia to prove to you, Madame, that I do not exaggerate when I sing my country's praises.
He had seen her thus he would see her nevermore!... Would the doctor never come? Many days the Angel of Death spread his wings over the cottage in the Valley of the Many-Colored Grass. Their shadow cast a great stillness upon the cottage. Outside was a white, silent world. Snow had fallen snow on snow until it lay deep, deep upon the garden-spot and deep in the streets outside.
"But for this short life of ours, one would like a house and a moderate garden-spot of one's own." "It appears to me," said the daguerreotypist, smiling, "that Uncle Venner has the principles of Fourier at the bottom of his wisdom; only they have not quite so much distinctness in his mind as in that of the systematizing Frenchman."
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