Marm Lisa

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Wiggin Kate Douglas Smith. Marm Lisa

I. EDEN PLACE

II. MISTRESS MARY’S GARDEN

III. A FAMILY POLYGON

IV. MARM LISA IS TRANSPLANTED

V. HOW THE NEW PLANT GREW

VI. FROM GRUBB TO BUTTERFLY

VII. THE COMET AND THE FIXED STAR

VIII. THE YOUNG MINISTER’S PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

IX. MARM LISA’S QUEST

X. THE TWINS JOIN THE CELESTIALS

XI. RHODA FREES HER MIND

XII. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM

XIII. LEAVES FROM MISTRESS MARY’S GARDEN

XIV. MORE LEAVES

XV ‘THE FEAST O’ THE BABE’

XVI. CLEANSING FIRES

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Mistress Mary’s Garden did grow remarkably well, and it was wonderfully attractive considering the fact that few persons besides herself saw anything but weeds in it.

She did not look in the least a ‘contrary’ Miss Mary, as she stood on a certain flight of broad wooden steps on a sunshiny morning; yet she was undoubtedly having her own way and living her own life in spite of remonstrances from bevies of friends, who saw no shadow of reason or common-sense in her sort of gardening.  It would have been foolish enough for a young woman with a small living income to cultivate roses or violets or lavender, but this would at least have been poetic, while the arduous tilling of a soil where the only plants were little people ‘all in a row’ was something beyond credence.

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Atlantic turned and ran, but the other two stood their ground.

‘Won’t you come up and see us?’ she repeated.  ‘There are some fishes swimming in a glass house; come and look at them.’

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