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This confidence, made discreetly, removed Monsieur Origet's suspicions, and enabled him to quiet the distress of that noble soul by telling her that in any case the count had to pass through this crisis, and that as for the nut-tree, his remaining there had done more good than harm by developing the disease. For fifty-two days the count hovered between life and death.
Willow was used for this at first; but it is a feeble wood: it split too much, or bent and gave way instead of holding the wire in its place. The best for the purpose we found were the nut-tree rods that shoot up among the hazel thickets, no larger than the shaft of an arrow, and almost as straight.
We wandered on in the valley wood, going from bush to bush, little heeding whither we went. There are no woods so silent as the nut-tree; there is scarce a sound in them at that time except the occasional rustle of a rabbit, and the 'thump, thump' they sometimes make underground in their buries after a sudden fright. So that the keen plaintive whistle of a kingfisher was almost startling.
It happened that the footpath just by the lane, on coming near the orchard, passed a moist place, which in rainy weather was liable to be flooded, and as this was inconvenient for her, her lover had a waggon-load of flints brought down from the hills where the hares held their revels, and placed in the hollow so as to fill it up, and over these he placed faggots of nut-tree wood, so that she could step across perfectly clean and dry.
The border line may be traced, and is occasionally so narrow, one may cross over it almost at a step. It would sometimes seem as if even the nut-tree bushes bore larger and finer nuts on the warmer soil, and that they ripened quicker.
From my open window, at which I am writing, I see up above there a bit of blue sky, the orifice of the well; down below on the little square which a huge nut-tree shades as though the shadows were not already thick enough two shepherds clothed in sheep-skins are playing at cards, with their elbows on the stone of a fountain.
In the autumn, too, many a dry brown leaf found its way among the more expensive tobacco ones. "'And I, cried a former peddler, breaking into the carpenter's story, 'I assuredly have not forgotten the nut-tree, where I always set down my pack when my shoulders were nearly broken, and under whose shade I used to rest my weary limbs before entering the village. "'I, too!
The fig-tree said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel, and, also, my fruits were brought to the Temple as firstfruits." The vine said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel and, also, my wine is brought to the altar." The apple-tree said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel." The nut-tree said: "I am ready to serve, for I am symbolic of Israel."
I heard a little lamb cry ba-a! POTATOES IN JACKETS. 'The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker, All jumped out of a roasted potato. STEWED BEANS. 'You, nor I, nor nobody knows, Where oats, peas, beans, and barley grows. CHICKEN AND BEEF SANDWICHES. 'Hickety, pickety, my pretty hen Laid good eggs for gentlemen. Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef. LEMON PIE. 'A pie sat on a pear-tree. PLUM TARTS. 'The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer's day. FRUIT, NUTS, AND RAISINS. 'You shall have an apple, You shall have a plum. 'I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear. BREAD AND CHEESE. 'When I was a bachelor I lived by myself, And all the bread and cheese I got I put upon the shelf. COFFEE AND LEMONADE. 'One, two, three, how good you be!
Silence reigned for a moment; then, as if the bone of contention was forgotten in the pleasant recollections called up by familiar objects, Nan said suddenly: 'What fun we used to have in that wood! Do you remember how you tumbled out of the big nut-tree and nearly broke your collar-bones?
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