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every side. She looks up at him out of the 

 bracken with an aspect not very different from 

 what she wore at the Prime, and if he wishes to 

 spoil her well, he has to do it for himself! 

 This to many excellent gardeners would seem 

 a poor compensation for a sadly unproductive 

 soil, and a deplorable lack of summer moisture. 

 There are others, however, to whom a certain 

 sense of indwelling peace, a certain feeling of 

 underlying harmony, are the first of all require- 

 ments. Now both of these are more easily found 

 than made. 



