Temple Bailey

Name: In the Bachelor's Garden
Author: Temple Bailey

In the Bachelor's Garden (1902)

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“In the Bachelor's Garden”, published in 1902, is a work by Temple Bailey. It explores elements such as Bachelor, white cat and goddess.

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Temple Bailey, In the Bachelor's Garden (1902)

“ Thus the girl came into the garden, and now that the Bachelor had her on enchanted ground he was not afraid.
So, suddenly brave, he went and picked a big red rose, and, leaning over her, he fastened it in her hair—the burnished hair of the goddess. Then his two hands went to each side of the oval of her face and he turned it up to his.
"You belong to my garden, you flower of all the flowers," he said; "I will not let you go."
As she looked at him, wonderingly, all his courage deserted him; for who dares command a goddess? ”

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Temple Bailey, In the Bachelor's Garden (1902)

“ He drove Jane nearly distracted by the mystery of his actions. When before had he neglected the precious garden?
"Your lilies-of-the-valley are coming out," she said one morning, reproachfully.
In the quiet days before the coming of the goddess, the lily bed had been the pride of the Bachelor's heart. His conscience smote him and he went out to the secluded corner where the little white bells nestled in the sheathlike leaves.
"She is like them, she is like them," he whispered, and brooded over their beauty. ”

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Temple Bailey, In the Bachelor's Garden (1902)

“ What man could be old with a face like that in his heart?
It was fate. That morning something had said to him, "She is coming!" and now she had come into his life—his lonely, lonely life.
Up in the Bachelor's den was a little window that overlooked the cottage. This window became a shrine. He could see the girl and the boy and the white cat, and they were all of them very gay and very happy and very young, and the Bachelor, keeping wistful watch of them, felt like an elderly Peri.
He knew that he was spying on the goddess, but he, who had always been the soul of honor, gloried in his fall. ”

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Temple Bailey, In the Bachelor's Garden (1902)

“ He crept up to his den and dropped the lilies on the desk and his arms across the lilies and his head on his arms, and the shadows gathered deeper and deeper, until the room was black.
After this he turned again to his garden. "We must live without her," he said, and he talked with Jane about bulbs and other dry and commonplace things.
But sometimes, in the evening, when his pulses stirred, he would go up-stairs in the gloom to the little window and watch her, as she played rippling tunes to the boy or threw tissue-paper balls for the white cat to catch. ”

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Temple Bailey, In the Bachelor's Garden (1902)

“ On such evenings he would go home and sit in some dark corner of his garden and meditate murder.
But there were other days when no one came, and she was very kind. Little by little he was permitted to see the woman behind the goddess, and he loved her the more because of her humanity.
So it came about that one evening the Bachelor came down-stairs with a rose in his buttonhole and a bunch of lilies-of-the-valley in his hand.
Jane eyed him disapprovingly. "You are old," she grumbled, with the freedom of long service, "to be so gay." ”

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Temple Bailey, In the Bachelor's Garden (1902)

“ She doesn't know her own mind; no girl does."
The Bachelor wrung the boy's hand, and then that red-faced and bullet-headed angel departed.
But, when the boy had gone, the Bachelor's face darkened. His doubts returned, and he sat in his lonely corner with only the lilies for company. The white cat crept through the half-opened gate, unrebuffed, and, as the birds were all asleep, she came and sat by the Bachelor's side and tucked her pretty head under his hand.
And this time he did not turn her away. "Oh, pussy cat, pussy cat," he said, "will she ever come into my garden?" ”

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Temple Bailey, In the Bachelor's Garden (1902)

“ The longest-living author of this work died in 1953, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 69 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. ”

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