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Updated: May 6, 2025
But she only continued to stare out between the pillars where the lilac-hedge made a wall of deeper blackness across the night. "What am I thinking of?" she whispered, and then: "There!" And this time the old man heard it, a nearer, wind-blown hail. "Mother! Oh, Mother!" The boy came striding through the gap of the gate in the hedge. "It's I, Mother! Chris! Aren't you surprised?"
He remembered Silverthorn's injunction, however, and would not go into the cottage. He passed the lilac-hedge, with its half-pathetic exhalations of delicious odor recalling the past, and was prompted to step through a break in the stone wall and ascend the orchard slope.
The three of them sat out on the porch till the night came stealing up; it covered the street and the yard with darkness, crawled into the tree tops and the rose-bushes and the lilac-hedge. It hid all the familiar objects of daytime, except the street-lamp at the corner and certain windows of the neighbours' houses, which now showed square and yellow.
She led the way into the garden, and under the grape-trellis, where the tall lilac-hedge shut them from the sight of passers-by, she gave him old lady Knowles's great armchair, and took the little one that was hers when she came over to sit a while with her old friend. The talk went wandering back as if it sought the very sources of youth and life; but somehow it touched commonplaces only.
But he was making for the middle of the lilac-hedge, for the red rose archway and the asphalt walk between reddening apple trees: and Isabel was sitting near the end, close to the garden wall. She flew out of her chair, held up a branch while Lawrence squeezed between the wall and the lilacs, and flew back and curled up again.
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