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Aurora left his side and looked about, going to a little distance from the gap, first on one side and then on the other. "It is as if the wind had done it on purpose!" she cried impatiently. "It is as smooth as if it had all been swept with a gardener's broom." Corbario turned, lighted his extinguished cigar, and watched her, as she moved about, stooping now and then to examine the sand.
This latter speech expressed the late gardener's scorn, for it had been his greatest grief to pass for an uneducated man; and he had gathered from his various conditions a singularly dignified and pretentious way of speaking.
This made him hate the old woman almost as much as his subjects did, but to-day Lord Googly-Goo had agreed to pay the witch's price, so the King greeted her with gracious favor. "Can you destroy the love of Princess Gloria for the gardener's boy?" inquired his Majesty. The Wicked Witch thought about it before she replied: "That's a hard question to answer.
Mid-day came, the sun stood high and burning in the sky, but no news came from those she loved so well; and a feverish restlessness seized her which increased as night came on. In the twilight Boges came to her, and told her, with bitter scorn, that her letter to Bartja had come into the king's hands, and that the gardener's boy who brought it had been executed.
"Our quarters are in the gardener's cottage," said the major, loudly, evidently intending the information for the automobile driver's ear. They came to a roomy old cottage. Its windows were dark. The chauffeur stopped before it and the major sprang out. "Have a care how you step," he whispered to Ruth, and she made ready to get out of the car without a tumble.
I suppose he thought it was the gardener's boy. And I ran." "Did you, Petter Nord?" "Yes; you see, the cucumbers ought not to suffer on account of our enmity. I thought myself that it showed lack of character and so on, but I could not help it. I wanted to see if they would come to life. When I came back, he had lifted the glass off and still stood and stared despairingly.
The hound did not hear their steps of himself, whether that he were naturally drowsy, or overwearied the day before, but, the gardener's curs awaking him, he first began to growl and grumble in response, and then as they passed by to bark out aloud.
In spite of the serene and placid look of the old houses, one who has always known them cannot help thinking of the sorrows of these farms and their almost undiverted toil. Near the little gardener's plot, we turned from the main road and drove through lately cleared woodland up to an old farmhouse, high on a ledgy hill, whence there is a fine view of the country seaward and mountainward.
"Here it is, sir!" cried the clerk; and he pounced upon a pale parchment volume. The thin clergyman opened it, and recoiled in dismay more than three-fourths of the leaves had been torn out. "It is the moths, sir," said the gardener's wife, who had not yet removed from the house. The clergyman looked round; one of the children was trembling. "What have you done to this book, little one?"
But the astonishing part of it was that the youngest sister did not seem at all to relish this method of stopping the mouth of the gardener's boy, who, after all, had said nothing to their father. It was agreed that the question should be submitted to the other ten sisters. All were on the side of the eldest.
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