[Mary’s Meadow by Juliana Horatia Ewing]@TWC D-Link bookMary’s Meadow CHAPTER VI 8/10
It suits you much better than being a Queen." "Much better," said I. "You'll be exactly the reverse of me," said Harry.
"When I'm digging up, you'll be putting in." "Mary," said Arthur, from the corner where he was sitting with the Book of Paradise in his lap, "what have you put a mark in the place about honeysuckle for ?" "Oh, only because I was just reading there when James brought the letters." "John Parkinson can't have been quite so nice a man as Alphonse Karr," said Adela; "not so unselfish.
He took care of the Queen's Gardens, but he didn't think of making the lanes and hedges nice for poor wayfarers." I was in the rocking-chair, and I rocked harder to shake up something that was coming into my head.
Then I remembered. "Yes, Adela, he did--a little.
He wouldn't root up the honeysuckle out of the hedges (and I suppose he wouldn't let his root-gatherers grub it up, either); he didn't put it in the Queen's Gardens, but left it wild outside--" "To serve their senses that travel by it, or have no garden," interrupted Arthur, reading from the book, "and, oh, Mary! that reminds me--_travel--travellers._ I've got a name for your part just coming into my head.
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