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The happy garden (1912)

Ansell, Mary · London, New York [etc.] Cassell & co., ltd. · leaf 24

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eman who lovedwell and truly, and lost, and was so wounded that,for modesty, he gave the trunks of aU his treestrousers of laurel. There were laurels everywhere,and the little hedges there by the kitchen door andthe green kennel that makes the house semi-detached—^the sheepdog sleeps in it—(… … Great tall fellows they are, where they go striding up thehill behind the house Gardeners Pride the house ! A little double-fronted cottage,crowded in with laurels, and inside as dark as itcould possibly be made. What was it made theEnglish of the last century hide away in darkcorners ? Of what…

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