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Updated: May 16, 2025
I promise to be here, and your father's daughter will not take advantage of my kindness." Reluctant as I was, I obeyed this man, and left him there, and went slowly to the house, walking as if in a troubled dream. Upon my return, I saw nothing for a time but fans and feathers of browning fern, dark shags of ling, and podded spurs of broom and furze, and wisps of grass.
What a touching thought it was that they had all podded for me! When I went to pick them, I found the pods all split open, and the peas gone. The dear little birds, who are so fond of the strawberries, had eaten them all. Perhaps there were left as many as I planted: I did not count them.
The leaves of the silver poplars were turning their white under sides up like countless frog bellies, and the long, podded pendants of the Injun-cigar trees hung dangling and still. It would be a hot day, sure enough; already the judge felt wilted and worn out. In our town we had our tragedies that endured for years and, in the small-town way, finally became institutions.
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