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She looked round from the tub, and gave her son a nod by way of greeting, but did not open her mouth. Her little kitchen was full of steam, the floor swimming in soapsuds, the whole appearance of the place suggestive of confusion and discomfort. Walter picked his way across the floor, and sat down on the window-box, his favourite seat.
And leaning down over a foaming window-box, one stopped another hurrying past, and upstairs they went and down they went, until a sort of fulness settled on the court, the hive full of bees, the bees home thick with gold, drowsy, humming, suddenly vocal; the Moonlight Sonata answered by a waltz. The Moonlight Sonata tinkled away; the waltz crashed.
He wheeled round, plucked out his watch nine! the concert! his promise not to be late! Zuleika! All other thoughts vanished. In an instant he dodged beneath the sash of the window. From the flower-box he sprang to the road beneath. The other men had rushed to the window, fearing the worst. "No," cried Oover. "That's all right. Saves time!" and he raised himself on to the window-box.
"And so you've come back into my life after all these years!" "You haven't taken back your proof." She slipped it into his hand. "What have you done with my subscription-flower?" "The arbutus? It stands always on my desk." "Do you see the rest of it anywhere?" Her eyes rested on a tiny vase set in a hanging window-box of flowers, and holding a brown and withered wisp.
"So soon after the shadow of tragedy has crossed this threshold! What will people say?" A little vagrant breeze, like a lost, unseasonable butterfly, came in at the open window and stirred the filmy curtain, bearing on its soft breath the odor of narcissus from the bloom-laden window-box. "Oh, Doctor Franklin!" cried the girl, impulsively. "Don't talk of tragedy just now!
The smell of mignonette that spread in from the window-box through the turquoise-blue Venetian blinds; the chattering of the love-birds; the strains of a waltz of Waldteufel's floating up from a German band in the street below they ran into a single sensation that was like the stab of cold steel.
There is no danger of overwatering, for all surplus water will run off through the holes in the box, provided for drainage. Therefore make it a rule to apply to your window-box, every day, throughout the season, enough water to thoroughly saturate all the soil in it. If this is done, you will come to the conclusion that at last you have discovered the "knack" upon which success depends.
They were, in fact, as glad to get into the open as the city-seeking youngster is to get away from it. On the landward side of the bleak house, crimson-rambler roses were luxuriant, and a stiff shell-bordered garden gave charily of small marigolds. Riches were these, by comparison with the two geraniums in a window-box which had been their New York garden.
After dinner when Amanda was sleeping off the effects of the little sip of wine which she had taken when they let her clink glasses with them, they sat opposite each other beside the geraniums of the window-box and fell silent. He blew clouds of smoke from his cigar into the air and seemed not disinclined to indulge in a nap, too. Leaning back in her wicker chair she observed him uninterruptedly.
She planted her pride, her gratitude, her happiness, on this new soil: they were the few seed that a woman in the final years will sow in a window-box and cover the window-pane and watch and water and wake and think of in the night she who was used once to range the fields.
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