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She took out some work, and sat in the room where they had breakfasted, hoping to find an opportunity to converse with him on her own plans and prospects; while Laura, led by her affectionate feelings, put on her hat and sauntered down the garden to the lily-bed of course, and there she stood some time, thinking of her dear old grandmother.

My aunt had a corner assigned to her in our garden which she filled with lilies, and we all looked with the utmost respect and admiration at that precious lily-bed and wondered whether when we grew up we should ever be rich enough to own one anything like so grand. We imagined that each lily was worth an enormous sum of money and never dared to touch a single leaf or petal of them.

They outwalked their fathers, and Valentine, stooping over the bed, gathered two or three of the lovely flowers. "The poor old grandmother!" he observed. "Miss Melcombe told me she loved to watch this bed of lilies, and said only a few days ago, that she could wish they might never be disturbed." He turned both the old men stood stock still behind him, looking down on the lily-bed.

He woke up, turned his head and it was not Kay! It was only his neck that was like Kay's, but he was young and handsome. The princess sat up in her lily-bed and asked who was there. Then Gerda cried, and told her story and all that the crows had done.

Then, with a touch of anxiety, "It wasn't Miss Moore's idea that you should bring me flowers, was it?" "No." The squire grinned at her suddenly. "The worthy Columbus was responsible for that. I found him routing in the lily-bed after snails or some such delicacy. He was so infernally busy he made me feel ashamed.