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The little brown mother we have frightened away can give nearly all her time to her children; and, by the way, they may take cold unless we depart and let her shelter them again with her warm feathers. Besides, the protesting paterfamilias on the pear-tree there is not aware of our good-will toward him and his, and is naturally very anxious as to what we human monsters intend.
Babette made up the fire, and put the kettle on to boil for tea. Then she strolled out into the garden. She climbed up into a pear-tree. From her perch in its branches she could see far into the woods. She wondered when her friends would come and rescue her. Then she saw to her delight Lucky and some of her favourite cocks and hens wandering about in search of her. They came scuttling up at once.
"Fancy," he said, "old Gladstone spending his leisure cutting down trees of all melancholy jobs!" Felix did not quite know what to answer, so he put his arm within his brother's. Tod drew him toward the tree. "Sit down!" he said. Then, looking sorrowfully at the pear-tree, he murmured: "Seventy years and down in seven minutes. Now we shall burn it. Well, it had to go.
Jellison's very trim and pleasant cottage, which lay farther along the common, to the left of the road to the Court. There was an early pear-tree in blossom over the porch, and a swelling greenery of buds in the little garden. "Will you come in?" said Mary. "I should like to see Isabella Westall." Marcella started at the name. "How is she?" she asked. "Just the same.
"It matters little what a foolish girl like myself believes. The rest of the family, even the servants and children, all believe it. It is a part of their religion. Look at these flowers around the pear-tree, and scattered on that Indian mound. They regularly find their way there on saints' days and festas. THEY are not rubbish, Monsieur Garnier; they are propitiatory sacrifices.
"I heard two people come over, sir, and one of them fell down, and, I think, broke a small tree or bush." "Yes," said Sir Francis, "a bush is broken, and someone has climbed over by that big pear-tree." "I digged that bit along that wall only yesterday," said Ike. "Be silent, sir," cried Sir Francis; "stop. Come forward; set a candle down on the floor, Brownsmith." It was done.
From all these circumstances I should conjecture, that those female fig-flowers, which are closed on all sides in the fruit or receptacle without any male ones, are monsters, which have been propagated for their fruit, like barberries, and grapes without seeds in them; and that the Caprification is either an ancient process of imaginary use, and blindly followed in some countries, or that it may contribute to ripen the fig by decreasing its vigour, like cutting off a circle of the bark from the branch of a pear-tree.
The dusk came on, grew deeper, but the star did not shine. By-and-by, other stars less bright appeared, so that it could not be the sunset which obscured the expected one. Finally, I considered that I must have mistaken its position, when suddenly a puff of air blew through the branch of a pear-tree which overhung the window, a leaf moved, and there was the star behind the leaf.
Bar's interest in apples was so overtopped by the wrapt suspense in which he pursued the changes of these pears, from the moment when Lord Decimus solemnly opened with 'Your mentioning pears recalls to my remembrance a pear-tree, down to the rich conclusion, 'And so we pass, through the various changes of life, from Eton pears to Parliamentary pairs, that he had to go down-stairs with Lord Decimus, and even then to be seated next to him at table in order that he might hear the anecdote out.
But then he never would or could have put it all into words, if Dorcas had stayed with him under the pear-tree till the next morning. He thought of the Colonel's pride, and how it would come down, at the sight of Swan Day returning to Walton with five thousand dollars in his coat-pocket, and mounted, perhaps, on an elephant!
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