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XI: Garden Airs and Graces 



1HAVE no pride in my personal appearance. 

 At least I can endure such comments on it 

 as are made for my own good. You need only tell 

 me that my petticoat is hanging to see how pleas- 

 antly I will say "thank you" and depart for rem- 

 edies upstairs. Or you may pick a thread from oflF 

 my coat, slip a button into place, tuck in a hair- 

 pin, and you wiU not see me flinch from imder 

 your corrective hand. Even when you inform 



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