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Aftermath, by James Lane Allen
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Title: Aftermath
Author: James Lane Allen
Release Date: September 28, 2004 [eBook #13554]
Language: English
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AFTERMATH
Part Second of A Kentucky Cardinal
by
JAMES LAKE ALLEN
Author of The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky, Flute and Violin, etc.
1899
Dedication
This to her from one who in childhood used to stand at the windows of her room and watch for the Cardinal among the snow-buried cedars.
I
I was happily at work this morning among my butterbeans--a vegetable of solid merit and of a far greater suitableness to my palate than such bovine watery growths as the squash and the beet. Georgiana came to her garden window and stood watching me.
"You work those butterbeans as though you loved them," she said, scornfully.
"I do love them. I love all vines."
"Are you cultivating them as vines or as vegetables?"
"It makes no difference to nature."
"Do you expect me to be a vine when we are married?"
"I hope you'll not turn out a mere vegetable. How should you like to be my Virginia-creeper?"
"And what would you be?"
"Well, wh