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xii the flower-bed which she modelled in his image, and bizarre enough is the contrast he makes with the prettiness and favor of the little girl's gamesome idea, and the dainty expression she gave it in the poem "Hector in the Garden":

From the phase of fantasy into the moulds of verse were poured all warm and true the real wan-