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'The gardener may give you what he can spare, replied Mrs. Mortimer. 'And gardener, added she, looking back towards the green-house, 'desire your grandson to go into the copses, and bring home a little cart of holly, that we may have the kitchen well ornamented, when the tenantry come to their dinner. 'He shall be sure to do it, ma'am, replied the gardener.
"I was a little ashamed to be spatting away alone, but it pleased the fat woman, who proved to be Mrs. Brown, the keeper of the basket-boarders. "'That's Miss Smith. She done nice, didn't she, and she or'to of had some flowers, she said to me; and then I remembered with a pang that not a flower had been sent up to her the flower of them all and wished I had a whole green-house to give her.
With the rapidity of a train of gunpowder the whole course of the transaction, and its devilish purpose, came out: lady Charlotte had met Griffiths in a passage which you have perhaps observed to connect the green-house with what was then lady Walladmor's suite of apartments; in this passage there was a private door into the park, of which the key hung in the very room where the poor mother was sleeping.
Talleyrand was still thunderstruck at what the emperor had told him, when he had an interview with Count Metternich and myself in Fouche's green-house. To be sure, the phrases which he repeated to us were well calculated to make even the blood of a patient minister boil.
You will be snug and warm in the green-house. Sir W. Well, Clara, dispose of me as you please I am entirely at your service for the rest of my days. Clara. Thank you, sir you are the best of uncles, guardians, and friends. Sir W. Uncle, nature made me guardian, your father made me friend, you made me yourself, Clara.
"At first I used to bring green-house flowers," she continued, without much heeding his answer, "but lately I haven't been able to afford them except on Sundays. Sundays I bring white ones from the green-house." She had seated herself in her wicker chair, and Putnam, after a moment's hesitation, sat down on the low railing near her.
De Witt, although being very little of a horticulturist or of an artist, went over the whole mansion, from the studio to the green-house, inspecting everything, from the pictures down to the tulips.
First over the flower-garden, and round by the aviary, where Mamma's gold and silver pheasants were kept; and then into the green-house, where Poll, the parrot, hung in her great gilt cage, swinging about amongst the flowers, dancing up and down, and shrieking out whenever anybody came by; then swaying backwards and forwards in the ring in the cage, and climbing up and down all over the bars, this way and that way, head up and head down, and all the time looking as wicked and cunning as a hook-beaked old grey parrot can look.
Luckily for me, I was better qualified to act as cicerone in a gallery than as a guide in a green-house; and with the confidence that knowledge of a subject ever inspires, I rattled away about art and artists, greatly to the edification of Lady Callonby much to the surprise of Lady Catherine and, better than all, evidently to the satisfaction of her, to win whose praise I would gladly have risked my life.
There is not a stone laid of Fanny's green-house, and nothing but the plan of the flower-garden marked out." "Where is the green-house to be?" "Upon the knoll behind the house. The old walnut trees are all come down to make room for it. It will be a very fine object from many parts of the park, and the flower-garden will slope down just before it, and be exceedingly pretty.
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