. Midsummer Eve : a fairy tale of loving and being loved . ts me foaming — shes so worldly-minded ! Oh, then, isnt a worldly-minded woman a woful thing! You remember the flowers you gave Miss Eva? The darling settled them in her own chaneybowl, and I watched her looking at and trimming them with her heartin her eye. Is there any new kind of flower among them, missdarling? I said to her, pretending innocence, as she kept taking themin and out of the water. No, Randy, she answers, none. Becauseyoure such a while giving them the last touch, I said again. She neverturned round to smile at me, as s
. Midsummer Eve : a fairy tale of loving and being loved . ts me foaming — shes so worldly-minded ! Oh, then, isnt a worldly-minded woman a woful thing! You remember the flowers you gave Miss Eva? The darling settled them in her own chaneybowl, and I watched her looking at and trimming them with her heartin her eye. Is there any new kind of flower among them, missdarling? I said to her, pretending innocence, as she kept taking themin and out of the water. No, Randy, she answers, none. Becauseyoure such a while giving them the last touch, I said again. She neverturned round to smile at me, as she often does, but carried them away,and I couldnt help thinking how much fairer the living flowers of theAlmightys garden are than all the flowers of the field. Now, sir, wouldyou believe it, but the minute Kitty Kelly got Miss Evas back turned,she threw them all out, and filled the bowl full of the fruit MasterCormac had brought her! And what did she? inquired the almost breathless Sidney. She cast them out, sir—flung them over the lawn. I wish you. 82 MIDSUMMER EVE had only seen what I saw, continued the woodcutter, as, seized byone of his fits of sudden wildness, he clapped his hands; there theywent! hurroo ! rolling past Kittys window. She could not see whatI saw; and thinking they kept going on of themselves, cried out to know* what ailed them, hopping in the grass ? Well they might hop !—wellthey might roll! three little fellows kicking one apple ! Hurroo !—twoat a strawberry! How pleased they were to see the rich fruit scorned
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