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Life and Gabriella

CHAPTER VI
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I'll be real glad to," responded Miss Polly, agreeably flattered by his request.

"Is there any special place you want me to plant them ?" "Anywhere I can see 'em from the window.

I'd like to look at 'em while I eat my breakfast.

And while we are about it, wouldn't it be just as well to set out a whole bed of 'em ?" he asked with a munificent gesture which included in one comprehensive sweep the weeds, the walk, the elm tree, the blossoming rose-bush, and the freshly turned flower-borders.

The large free movement of his arm expressed a splendid scorn of small things, of little makeshifts, of subterfuges and evasions.
"Don't you think it would cut up the yard too much to make another bed ?" asked Gabriella, inspired by the whimsical demon of opposition.


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