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At one moment he examined the sweet-pea and mourned with it on a wretched existence. Again he congratulated the nasturtium on its two bright children; but he thought of the gardens wherein they might have bloomed and the remembrance of that spacious, sunny freedom saddened him. "Indeed, poor creatures!" said he, "ye also are in gaol."
She had come out expecting something, she did not know exactly what; it might not have been a walk among the sweet-pea blossoms, but she was very certain it was not a conversation with Mr. Petter, while Walter Lodloe sat over there in the moonlight with Calthea Rose. "You need not have given yourself any anxiety," she said to her companion, "for I have not the slightest idea of discharging Ida.
Sally indignantly waved an earth-bestained hand toward the trellis, where three pink, one white, and one brilliant crimson blossom flaunted themselves in the July sunshine as the first blooms of the sweet-pea season. "I take it back," admitted Janet, "and I'll not call my work 'weeding. What are you doing, idling here, Mr. Farmer? I thought you never allowed a moment to go to waste."
In one corner a clump of rusty-looking sweet-pea was climbing up the wall every leaf of this plant was riddled with holes, and there were no flowers on it. Another corner was occupied by dwarf nasturtiums, and on this plant, in despite of every discouragement, two flowers were blooming, but its leaves also were tattered and dejected.
But her sudden anger floated away in a whiff of sweet-pea perfume that struck her in the face; she waved her hand in farewell to her callers and watched the buggy down the lane with a smile. "Of course, Jacob doesn't know, and I shouldn't have snapped him up so quick. It'll be my turn to crow when Ralph does come. My, but isn't that girl pretty.
On the preceding evening every garden is opened, the borders are ravaged, baskets-full of roses, armfulls of jasmine, bunches of gilly-flowers and sweet-pea fall under a little army of scissars and white hands.
"Yes, of me," he replied; "of myself, of a man who has no scheme, no plan, no concealments, and who only wishes you to know that he loves you with all his heart." She looked at him steadfastly for a moment. "Was it for this," she said, "that you asked me to come with you and pick sweet-pea blossoms?" "Not at all," he exclaimed; "I meant no more than I said, and thought of no more.
"See, see," chuckled the wood-witch. "See the cocoanuts in the cellar." Go forth and look for it, ye Woodcrafters. You will find it throughout Eastern America on the edge of every wood. Its flower is like a purple-brown sweet-pea, and is in bloom all summer long.
"Well, who are you?" stammered the startled young man, as the children gained their feet and stood shyly eyeing the city folks. "Two of the Greenfield kids," answered Peace. "We were just trying one of my melons when we heard what you said. We've got some fine ones in our garden, and I'll sell them cheap. They b'long to me. I planted sweet-pea seeds and they came up."
"To tell the truth, I always thought, Lil, you were more in love with Harry than anybody you ever knew." Lillie laughed a little, and then the prettiest sweet-pea flush deepened the pink of her cheeks. "To say the truth, Belle, I could have been, if he had been in circumstances to marry. But, you see, I am one of those to whom the luxuries are essential.
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