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The Lovely Lady

PART ONE
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The most of poor men will sit about and rail and envy the rich, but hardly one would think to ask how it is done, or believe if he were told.

They've a notion it's all gouging and luck, and you couldn't beat that out of them if you tried.

Very few of them understand how simple success is; it isn't easy often, but it is always simple." Peter supposed that he really ought to go after that, though he did not know how to manage it until Mrs.Dassonville smiled at him over her husband's shoulder and asked him what sort of work he did.

"Oh, if you know about gardens," she interrupted him, "you can help a little.

There are such a lot of things coming up in mine that I don't know the names of." It flashed out to Peter long afterward that she had simply provided an easy way for him to get out of the house now that his visit was terminated.


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