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A GARDEN OF PEACE
A Medley In Quietude
New York: George H. Doran Company
DOROTHY
ROSAMUND, FRANCIE, OLIVE, MARJORIE, URSULA
A GARDEN OF PEACE
Dorothy frowns slightly, but slightingly, at the title; but when challenged to put her frown into words she has nothing worse to say about it than that it has a certain catchpenny click--the world is talking about The Peace and she has an impression that to introduce the word even without the very definite article is an attempt to derive profit from a topic of the hour--something like backing a horse with a trusty friend for a race which you have secret information it has won five minutes earlier--a method of amassing wealth resorted to every day, I am told by some one who has tried it more than once, but always just five minutes too late.
But Dorothy's reply comes pat: If Mr. Blackmore did that, all she can say is that she doesn't think any the better of him for it; just what the Sabbatarian Scotswoman said when the act of Christ in plucking the ears of corn on the Sabbath Day was brought under her ken.
"Your own what?" cried Dorothy.
"Oh, that one? Well?"
"Only then it would have been a Garden of War, but now it suits you--your fancy, to make it a Garden of Peace."
"It's not too late yet; if you go on like this, I think I could manage to introduce a note of warfare into it and to make people see the appropriateness of it as well; so don't provoke me."
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