Lady Catherine's Necklace
“You don’t give care and help to someone, that body’s a-going to turn agin you. Right?’ ‘I suppose so,’ said Anne, thinking of herself. Nobody has given me much care and help, she thought; except Joss, to be sure. And I am against everybody. That is true.
‘Leave your garden alone for two weeks,’ pursued Joss, ‘and that’ll turn angry. And I don’t mean just the weeds’ll come up and start to plague you; no, the whole plot ’ull have a bad feel agin you. It’ll turn sour, ye’ll have to pamper and codd...le a bit afore it’ll welcome ye back.’ ‘Even a garden like this?’ said Anne, looking across the shaven lawns. ‘Even a garden that doesn’t belong to you?’ ‘That don’t make no manner of difference. Just to have your name writ on a bit o’ paper, that’s no business of plants or trees. Is it? A garden belongs to the chaps as does the digging and pruning.’ ‘But Joss, don’t you wish you had a garden of your own?’ ‘Some day I shall,’ said Joss without impatience.MoreLess
‘Leave your garden alone for two weeks,’ pursued Joss, ‘and that’ll turn angry. And I don’t mean just the weeds’ll come up and start to plague you; no, the whole plot ’ull have a bad feel agin you. It’ll turn sour, ye’ll have to pamper and codd...le a bit afore it’ll welcome ye back.’ ‘Even a garden like this?’ said Anne, looking across the shaven lawns. ‘Even a garden that doesn’t belong to you?’ ‘That don’t make no manner of difference. Just to have your name writ on a bit o’ paper, that’s no business of plants or trees. Is it? A garden belongs to the chaps as does the digging and pruning.’ ‘But Joss, don’t you wish you had a garden of your own?’ ‘Some day I shall,’ said Joss without impatience.MoreLess
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