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"After all," he said, "it is very beautiful!" "It is singularly and strangely beautiful!" said the Professor. "I wish the beastly gas-bag would burst!" "No," said Dr. Bull, "I hope it won't. It might hurt the old boy." "Hurt him!" said the vindictive Professor, "hurt him! Not as much as I'd hurt him if I could get up with him. Little Snowdrop!" "I don't want him hurt, somehow," said Dr. Bull.
"I will, right willingly," said Snowdrop. So she dwelt with them, and kept their house in order. Every morning they went out among the mountains, to seek iron and gold, and came home ready for supper in the evening.
'You can't live in the arbour; let us go and look at the house, said Stella; but Vava and Eva had opened the back-door, which led into the garden, and their voices were heard exclaiming in delight as they found primrose and violet plants and an early snowdrop, and fruit-trees which might be apples or pears or plums.
"If he hits me, you go straight on to Bindon," he continued. "Never mind about me. Go to the Snowdrop Mine. Get there by twelve o'clock, and warn them. Don't stop a second for me " Suddenly three shots rang out in succession Tom Sanger's house had emptied itself on the bank of the river and Dingley gave a sharp exclamation. "They've hit me, but it's the same arm as before," he growled.
There is the snowdrop in the snow! There is the butterfly! There is the rain of summer, and the clearing of the sky after a storm! There is the hen gathering her chickens under her wing! I begin to doubt whether there be the common-place anywhere except in our own mistrusting nature, that will cast no care upon the Unseen.
Outside there was a barnyard, and a two-story hencoop to be put to rights, with its brood of pet chickens each with its name, Snowdrop, Crown Imperial, Queenie, Fawn, and the like decorative appellations. The two children, Una and Julian, were in a paradise. Other friends came, too, to visit or to call. Mrs. Hawthorne soon remarked that they seemed to see more society than ever before.
Jobson, junior, who had just come in from the shop, remarked, shortly, that he felt more like a blooming snowdrop. "And somebody slopped a lot of water over the stairs carrying it up," said Mrs. Jobson. "I don't believe as everybody has cold baths of a morning. It don't seem wholesome to me." Mr. Jobson took a book from his pocket, and opening it at a certain page, handed it over to her.
After tea, Miss Benson took her upstairs to her room. The white dimity bed, and the walls, stained green, had something of the colouring and purity of effect of a snowdrop; while the floor, rubbed with a mixture that turned it into a rich dark brown, suggested the idea of the garden-mould out of which the snowdrop grows.
The Dwarfs, when they had heard her sad story, asked her: 'Will you stay and keep house for us, cook, make the beds, the washing, sew and knit? and if you give satisfaction and keep everything neat and clean, you shall want for nothing. 'Yes, answered Snowdrop, 'I will gladly do all you ask. And so she took up her abode with them.
Then she gazed thoughtfully upon the red drops that sprinkled the white snow, and said, 'Would that my little daughter may be as white as that snow, as red as that blood, and as black as this ebony windowframe! And so the little girl really did grow up; her skin was as white as snow, her cheeks as rosy as the blood, and her hair as black as ebony; and she was called Snowdrop.
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