. Periwinkle : an autobiography . CHAPTEE OW, mind, had said Lady Tracy ;**you are here, dear Flower, atArley Bridge, to be idle all daylong; to be out of doors as much as possible ;sitting, say, occasionally under those nice oldtrees yonder, when the leaves get a little thickerand the sun o^rows a little warmer ; to troubleyour head about nothing whatever; in short, totake life, dont you know, just as smoothly andas drowsily as did those odd lazy folk in thatwonderful land where it seemed always after-noon! I shook my head, smiling mournfully. Alreadyhad I formed dim plans with regard
. Periwinkle : an autobiography . CHAPTEE OW, mind, had said Lady Tracy ;**you are here, dear Flower, atArley Bridge, to be idle all daylong; to be out of doors as much as possible ;sitting, say, occasionally under those nice oldtrees yonder, when the leaves get a little thickerand the sun o^rows a little warmer ; to troubleyour head about nothing whatever; in short, totake life, dont you know, just as smoothly andas drowsily as did those odd lazy folk in thatwonderful land where it seemed always after-noon! I shook my head, smiling mournfully. Alreadyhad I formed dim plans with regard to my life inthe future. With more earnest thought, withmore prayer for high guidance in the matter, Ishould, I fancied, ere long see my path moreclearly to the right course ahead of me. Redknights. 223 In spite of the deep melancholy which at timespossessed me—a melancholy that assuredly wasnot to be marvelled at; all that I had suffered,all that I had gone through being borne in mind—I could not help feeling that life at Arley Bridgewas a
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