A garden rosary . 128 A GARDEN ROSARY October 20 5 / walked across the meadowsthis evening, the wild carrot,dying of chill, caught at myskirt with myriad skinny fingers. Likewithered old ladies, hugging their dingylace around them, they shivered in thehreeze. I stood in their trembling midst,and it seemed to me that I saw the figureof Mrs. Skewton as I used to imagine herin my childhood days — lean and eager,clutching with feeble insistence at thatproud daughter of hers — Edith who, passing by iridifferently, pausedfor a moment in her imperious career,irritated and yet touched by th
A garden rosary . 128 A GARDEN ROSARY October 20 5 / walked across the meadowsthis evening, the wild carrot,dying of chill, caught at myskirt with myriad skinny fingers. Likewithered old ladies, hugging their dingylace around them, they shivered in thehreeze. I stood in their trembling midst,and it seemed to me that I saw the figureof Mrs. Skewton as I used to imagine herin my childhood days — lean and eager,clutching with feeble insistence at thatproud daughter of hers — Edith who, passing by iridifferently, pausedfor a moment in her imperious career,irritated and yet touched by the pathetic,despicable appeal of unlovely old age. So sometimes, when I see the wrinkledfaces of those whose days go on with slow,dull pulse, and think of the sparkle andbravery of her who had so much to give,depression saps my A GARDEN ROSARY 129 October 25 here is comfort in the mere com-pletion of any course. The ten-der bluets, dotting the springpastures and trampled in the mud hy care-less feet, are pitiable. The rose eaten bya worm is horrible. The storm whichbeats the breath from a gasping flower, oran accident which cuts it down in bud, ora blight which poisons it — these aretragedies. But how can we, creatures ofNature and part of her irrevocable scheme,rebel when one who had flowered bril-liantly and scattered its seeds withgenerosity, reaching the end of its season,faded gently from our sight?
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