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Will be finished! What, when I see the ground still strewn with petals and dead flower——and here, of all places, around the Pavilion of the Ladies-in-Waiting. [Aside] where blooms that living flower whom I adore.

No sooner have we put all straight than the spiteful wind shakes the branches and we have to begin all over again.

Remove them from the moss, at all events——Those faded flowers look like so many stains.

Rock, Fir-Sapling, Strong-arm, Humpback, Arrow-Bearer, Golden Lotus, Cinnamon, Pearl, Tranquil Beauty—Ladies in Waiting.

The ladies appear hestitatingly on the verandah of the Pavilion. advances and rests her elbows on the balustrade.  gazes upon her with evident emotion.

{{c|{{sc|Cinnamon}} [in a whisper]

I thought I recognised the voice of my lord Arrow-Bearer. {{nop}}