Capitolo 27
his/her gun, and it marched to his/her daily martyrdom in the
he/she cooks with as heroic a heart as her "Houseservant of Orleans"
taken to his/her pole.
Mind it won the victory on the matter in the end,
and Of it was better all of his/her days for the tribulations
and the triumphs of that time; for her he/she drowned him
inactive desires in its wash-tub, burn-offered sorts
of the egoism and the pride, and learned the value of
abnegation, as she sang with happy voice among
the pots and boilers of her conquered kingdom.
Nan thought about John, and in her calm
sleepless nights begged Sky to hold him/it safe,
and it does her/it worthy to receive and strong enough
to bear the beatitude or the pain of love.
Snow fell without, and acute winds howled
among the pruned elms, but "grasses of the grace"
you/he/she was blooming beautifully in the light of the sun of
sincere effort, and this darker season tried the
more fertile than the year; for love Laura taught,
job punished Of, and patience was all right Nan for the
blessing of his/her life.
Nature that the stillest, even more industrious of housewives,
finally started that "spring cleaning" that
her ago so pleasant that nobody finds the heart to
it mumbles as they does when the other matrons put them
a-dust of premises. His/her hand-houseservants, wind and rain
and it suns, it swept, it washed, and it busily garnished,
green carpets were explained, apple-branches were
suspended with draperies of flower and tooth of lion, pet
nurslings of the year, went out for playing on the
sward.
From the South that company of work returned
of who manager is never in desperation which the way
it is never in a bad mood whose first woman never fails, and
in the orchard bona fide matinees were contained, to
what gold buttons and clovers crowded in them
more beautiful hats spring, and young green blades
it shone their dewy lorgnettes, as they arched and
way done for the beautiful floral.
May was offering June good-tomorrow, and the
roses were dreaming only that was almost time to
awake, when John entered again the calm room