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lse, my Joan, only you. And the years slipped, and I forgot how fast they went; we will have hollyhocks--in our own garden, dear."
The doctor, summoned by Richard, had entered the room, but he shook his head sadly, and moved towards the door.
"There is nothing to be done," he whispered to the servant, "we had better leave them alone. There is nothing we can do."
The room was very still, save only for the laboured breathing of the dying man. The woman's hand still softly stroked his hair; he lay so quietly that she thought he had passed out of consciousness into that strange borderland which is Death's ante-chamber.
The setting sunlight streamed into the room and across his face; the twittering of the birds in the square, the soft rustling of the wind in the tree-tops, were borne in at the half-open window.
Suddenly the dying man opened his eyes in full consciousness.
"I knew you would not leave me," he whispered. "I--said--a woman would stay--with me, it was--you I meant. I--have wasted my life--God forgive me! You have forgiven, my dear--a faithful woman--has forgiven--I think--God--will forgive--too--I--am taking"--his voice almost failed--"my wasted life--with me--to be--to be"--a little whimsical smile stole over his face--"to be--filed--for--reference."
L. G. MOBERLY.
OUR LILY GARDEN.
PRACTICAL AIDS TO THE CULTURE OF LILIES.
BY CHARLES PETERS.
One of the greatest testimonies to the value of these flowers is that the buds will develop and open into blossoms of their natural size while in water in a close room of a London square, and another reason for their value is that they last two or three weeks if attended to about every other day, that is, longer than any other cut flower of our cultivation.
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