Flowers

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“they chorused…

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…except one”

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“the red-

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-eyed dissenter”

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“small

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sulky girl”

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“red

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ribbon”

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“Huffishly,

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Margaret nodded”

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“Miss Laing was

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exhilarated.”

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“‘There they are,

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children,’ she cried. ‘There are the true flowers of our country”

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“The most

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precious, the most beautiful”

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“her excessive…

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…white-haired enthusiasm”

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“hands on

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their Bibles”

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“long thin

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lassie-like legs”

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“twinkled

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under his torn kilt”

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“gabbled to

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one another in Gaelic”

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“mysterious and

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hateful to her Lowland ears”

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“streaming

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like fire”

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“red br

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anches

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“she didn’t want

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to be safe from bombs”

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“where in a

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day they’d wither”

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“suddenly

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she jumped up over the dyke”

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“gold and

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silver spangles swimming in it like wonderful swans”

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“green with

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gold and black zig-zag markings”

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“greeney-grey

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lichened stone and gently waving fronds of bracken”

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“black

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tongue spitting in and out”

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“It seemed to

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represent not only that detestable alien country but her own wickedness in disobeying”

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“she snatched

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up a stick of hazel”

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“She was amazed

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because she hadn’t though a snake would have red blood in it”

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“yellow

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flower”

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“its beauty,

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harmlessness, and its loneliness there amidst the tall brackens”

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“and hold

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it against her cheek

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“a black and

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white bird with long red legs and beak”

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“more birds

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rose and screamed”

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“glittering

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water”

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“Smiling

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shyly”

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“red-beaked

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birds screamed again”

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“her whole

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body seemed frozen in the cold bright sea”

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“the yellow flower was

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crushed into a green and black mess”

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“gleaming

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bones”

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“Weeping and yelling,

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she rubbed it madly on the grass”