As a Watered Garden

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Mary Esther Miller MacGregor. As a Watered Garden

As a Watered Garden

Table of Contents

1. Transplanted

2. Water from the Old Well

3. Summer Showers

4. Beyond the Garden Gate

5. New Garden Plots

6. Winds from the Desert

7. Wild Clover

8. Brier Rose

9. Tangled Vines

10. Random Blossoms

11. Thorns and Nettles

12. A Seedling Planted

13. The Garden Party

14. Canterbury Bells

15. Flower of the Nightshade

16. The Garden Wall

17. The Cuckoo’s Nest

18. A Late Rosebud

19. New Bloom on the Old Tree

20. Harvest

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Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

Published by Good Press, 2021

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She had another, immediate reason for wanting to be alone. It was her secret. Even Pete didn’t know it. That winter when she broke her ankle ... she’d been laid up for weeks. And somehow she’d started scribbling—little sketches of the office staff—‘profiles’ the editor had called them, whisking through them, competently. Ought to be a story. Must have a plot. Make a real yarn out of it. That’s what people asked for ... Well, this summer she was going to see what she could do.

What a sensation she would have aroused at the orchard picnic, if she had said, complacently, ‘I’m going to write a book this summer. So I want very much to be alone. Please don’t give me a thought.’ She could hear Pete’s delighted laughter (Put me in your book, Islay), Kate’s caustic comments on literary women, the pained incredulity of R. Fraser Drummond’s sophisticated daughters.

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