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Updated: August 24, 2024
Bates glanced from the wall-paper to the window-box, and from the window down into the back yard, where, beneath the week's washing, flapping in the breeze and the sun, she saw next summer's flowers already blooming. "Did you read that paragraph last week," she asked, suddenly, "about my having been a washer-woman once?" "No. What was it in?" "One of those miserable society papers.
She turned to an east court-window, where the morning sun was gleaming on some flowers in a window-box, and began to pinch off a dead leaf here and there.
We see more of them every year. Those who have gardens or could have them, if they wanted them seem to have a decided preference for the window-box substitute. There is a good reason for this: The window-box brings the garden to one's room, while the garden obliges one to make it a visit in order to enjoy the beauty in it.
He had folded all the blankets neatly, rose, and went over to the window-box to get some strong cord. "In the gallopin' wash-boiler?" "Red" smiled, "That still belongs to us I mean, you." He clinked his spurs on the table. "Us is right, 'Red. You said you'd been a partner. You have. Some day I'm going to tell you how grateful I am."
It looked to him as if he had scarcely begun to live, as if he had not had his first taste of existence. He felt himself a youth. His senses were sharpened, and he got a keen delight from them, which stimulated his spirit like wine. He perceived for the first time a perfume from the green plants in his window-box, which seemed to grow before his eyes and give an odor like the breath of a runner.
From this onerous duty, however, she was now to desist, and from all fatigue of receiving the guests who were arriving by different trains throughout the day. She was to lie at her ease on silken cushions in that pretty room of her own, upon whose window-box the supposititious burglar had set his too heavy boot.
If pink and white varieties are used to the exclusion of the mottled and variegated kinds the effect will be found vastly more pleasing than where there is an indiscriminate jumbling of colors. A foot in width, a foot in depth, and the length of the window frame to which it is to be attached is a good size for the average window-box.
I managed it all right, though it was nearly four long years since I'd flicked the ash off the end of one in Chinkie's yacht going up to Monte Carlo. But I was glad enough to drop the bigger half of it quietly into my nasturtium window-box, when the lady wasn't looking. The lady in question, by the way, seems rather disappointed to find that Casa Grande has what she called "central heating."
There was a room built especially for me with a little bath-room of its own, a big closet, a window-box filled with flowers in the summer, and cretonne hangings that I picked out myself. My sister Lucy had a room too for she wasn't married then and the entire attic was finished up as barracks for my brothers, the twins, who were in college at the time.
The dining- parlour, or what served as such, was Griff's property, as any one could see by the pictures of horses, dogs, and ladies, the cups, whips, and boxing-gloves that adorned it; the sitting-room had tokens of other occupation, in Clarence's piano, window-box of flowers, and his one extravagance in engravings from Raffaelle, and a marine water-colour or two, besides all my own attempts at family portraits, with a case of well-bound books.
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