22/33 "They will do as well here as elsewhere. They have sun; I take care that they have air too, and I water them with bullock's blood. They have all they want." "But they look desperately sick." "Just as at first they will, of course; the air is still cold, and we have had little sun as yet. When we have no garden, we must do the best we can." He looked complacently around his room, "As to the decorations of a room, you see I can cope with any one--of course, in proportion to my means. |