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XII. The End of a Quarrel
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Nancy Rogerson sat down on Louisa Shaw’s front doorstep and looked about her, drawing a long breath of delight that seemed tinged1 with pain. Everything was very much the same; the square garden was a charming hodge-podge of fruit and flowers, and goose-berry bushes and tiger lilies, a gnarled old apple tree sticking up here and there, and a thick cherry copse at the foot. Behind was a row of pointed3 firs, coming out darkly against the swimming pink sunset sky, not looking a day older than they had looked twenty years ago, when Nancy had been a young girl walking and dreaming in their shadows. The old willow4 to the left was as big and sweeping5 and, Nancy thought with a little shudder6, probably as caterpillary, as ever. Nancy had learned many things in her twenty years of exile from Avonlea, but she had never learned to conquer her dread7 of caterpillars8.
“Nothing is much changed, Louisa,” she said, propping9 her chin on her plump white hands, and sniffing10 at the delectable11 odour of the bruised12 mint upon which Louisa was trampling13. “I’m glad; I was afraid to come back for fear you would have improved the old garden out of existence, or else into some prim
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deliberately
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