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"Scorn not the smallness of daily endeavour, / Let the great meaning ennoble it ever, / Droop not o'er efforts expended in vain, / Work, as believing, that labour is gain. " / Queen Isabel, etc. by S. M.
The sturdy recusant against Myrtlewood croquet continued to be Rachel Curtis, and yet it was not a testimony against the game so much as real want of time for it. She was always full of occupation, even while her active mind craved for more definite and extended labour; and when she came upon the field of strategy, it was always either with some business before her, or else so late that the champions were only assisting their several lags to bring the battle to an end.