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The Shuttle

CHAPTER XXI
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"Regular accounts will be kept and supervised, but you can have all that is required." Then it appeared that Kedgers almost became pale.

Being a foreigner, perhaps she did not know how much she was implying when she said such a thing to a man who had never held a place like Timson's.
"Miss," he hesitated, even shamefacedly, because to suggest to such a fine-mannered, calm young lady that she might be ignorant, seemed perilously near impertinence.

"Miss, did you mean you wanted only the Lilium Giganteum, or--or other things, as well." "I should like to see," she answered him, "all that you see.

I should like to hear more of it all, when we have time to talk it over.

I understand we should need time to discuss plans." The quiet way she went on! Seeming to believe in him, almost as if he was Mr.Timson.The old feeling, born and fostered by the great head gardener's rule, reasserted itself.
"It means more to work--and someone over them, miss," he said.


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