. The happy garden . hings are rather crowded as they are,though she would be only too delighted to haveMrs. Smith as a paying guest, were it not that allthe available space is needed for a future MissGardener. She blushes so prettily as she says it, and is soshy and timid that I laugh outright and take myoffending Jane away, and leave after MasterGardener has given my hand one last suck. Blesshim ! With Jane away, I feel safer and relieved,though, having invented Jane for a certainpurpose, I am bound to it: and having inventeda sort of Early Victorian Jane, who is allconscience, my conscience
. The happy garden . hings are rather crowded as they are,though she would be only too delighted to haveMrs. Smith as a paying guest, were it not that allthe available space is needed for a future MissGardener. She blushes so prettily as she says it, and is soshy and timid that I laugh outright and take myoffending Jane away, and leave after MasterGardener has given my hand one last suck. Blesshim ! With Jane away, I feel safer and relieved,though, having invented Jane for a certainpurpose, I am bound to it: and having inventeda sort of Early Victorian Jane, who is allconscience, my conscience becomes active has claims upon me and must be satisfied ;but she shall go the very longest way round, andI refuse to spare her. She has seen the kennel, but I think she didnot see the water-butt, and I am sure she did notsufficiently admire the thick hedge of fir and sprucecut to half the height of the trees. It is hardly necessary for her to see the gardenrollers or the shed where the games live; almost 90. H A Long Way Round enough to start a small store. However, she maysee the other side of the privet hedge, since peopleof her period seem so rarely to have seen the otherside of things. There now, Jane : Where are you ? She rubs her eyes, and is amazed to find her-self at the orchard end of the sweet-pea path : thepoint from which she set out. She likes things large, and the zig-zag treat-ment is beginning to have its effect. She remem-bers miles of strawberry beds, acres of cabbages,a carriage drive a quarter of a mile long, and likethe American, caught tripping on the verge of awild exaggeration, a conservatory one mile high—and six feet wide. She shall approach the rest—and best—of thegarden through the woods. Therefore, up the pathon the other side of the Japanese rose hedge, pastHookies apple tree, along the little path throughthe border and into the woods. The smell of the pines ! In spite of herself, Jane is impressed. Thepines go marching up the hill
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