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MR. MANNERS paid Brian the two hundred pounds, and took possession of the cottage. Hope thought it was all strangely pathetic. He looked like a fish out of water in his surroundings, for he had been so long in London that he had lost his country ways.
She passed by one day, and found him working in the garden in his tall silk hat; but she also noticed that his way of handling the plants was that of a garden-lover; and once she saw him raise a little piece of yellow jasmine upon the porch to his lips.