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Cowper

CHAPTER VII
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I will show you my prospects, the hovel, the alcove, the Ouse and its banks, everything that I have described.

I anticipate the pleasure of those days not very far distant, and feel a part of it at this moment.
Talk not of an inn! Mention it not for your life! We have never had so many visitors, but we could easily accommodate them all; though we have received Unwin, and his wife, and his sister, and his son all at once.

My dear, I will not let you come till the end of May, or beginning of June, because before that time my greenhouse will not be ready to receive us, and it is the only pleasant room belonging to us.
When the plants go out, we go in.

I line it with mats, and spread the floor with mats; and there you shall sit with a bed of mignonette at your side, and a hedge of honeysuckles, roses, and jasmine; and I will make you a bouquet of myrtle every day.

Sooner than the time I mention the country will not be in complete beauty.
"And I will tell you what you shall find at your first entrance.
Imprimis, as soon as you have entered the vestibule, if you cast a look on either side of you, you shall see on the right hand a box of my making.


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