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Identifier: kentuckycardinal00alle (find matches)
Title: A Kentucky cardinal ; and, Aftermath
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925. Aftermath
Subjects: Authors, American
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
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ppedthe note into the nest when they were lookingand I was not; but women — «// women — nowand then hold a man responsible for what theyhave done themselves. Sylvia, for instance.She grew peevish with me the other day be-cause my garden failed to furnish the particularflowers that would have assuaged her whim.And yet for days Sylvia has been helping her-self with such lack of stint that the poor clippedand mangled bushes look at me as I pass sym-pathetically by them, and say, If you dontkeep her away, wed as well be weeds! The truth is that Sylvias rampant session inschool, involving the passage of the GreatestCommon Divisor — far more dreadful than thepassage of the Beresina — her blue rosettes atthe recent Commencement, and the prospect ofa long vacation, together with further miscellanyappertaining to her age and sex, have strungthe chords of her sentimental being up to thehighest pitch. Feeling herself to be naturallya good instrument and now perfectly in tune, i58 ^ 5L*!
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SYLVIA AND THE GOSLING. 159 Sylvia requires that she shall be continuallyplayed upon — if not by one person, then byanother. Nature overloads a tendency in orderto make it carry straight along its course againstthe interference of other tendencies; and shewill sometimes provide a girl with a great manyyoung men, at the start, in order that she maybe sure of one husband in the end. The pre-cautionary swarm in Sylvias case seems multi-tudinous enough to supply her with successivehusbands to the end of her days and in theteeth of all known estimates of masculine mor-tality. How unlike Georgiana! I think of Georgiana as the single peach ona tree in a season when they are rarest. Not avery large peach, and scarcely yet yielding ablush to the sun, although its long summer heatis on the wane; growing high in the air at theend of a bough and clustered about by its shin-ing leaves. But what beauty, purity, freshness !You must hunt to find it and climb to reach it;but when you get it, you get

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