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It was about a month after that sad scene that I went over to see old

Browns, but htful; and though I used to sit a great deal at

theI felt as if I had not the heart to go into the great garden,

where every path and bed would see up one of the days when

so the flowers and listening to

the birds

I used to fancy that if I went down any of her favourite walks I should

burst out crying; and I had a horror of doing that, for the knowledge

was beginning to dawn uponoverlike a ate I saw Shock at the door of one of the lofts

over the big packing-sheds He had evidently gone up there after some

baskets, and as soon as I saw him I walked quickly in his direction; but

he darted out of sight in the loft; and if I had any idea of scaling the

ladder and going up to him to take him by storm, it was checked at once,

for a half-sieve basket--one of those flat, round affairs in which fruit

is packed--ca out of the door, and then another and another,

one after the other, at a tremendous rate, quite sufficient to have