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Title: Bulbs and Blossoms

Author: Amy Le Feuvre

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BULBS AND BLOSSOMS

by

AMY LE FEUVRE

Author of
"Probable Sons", "Teddy's Button", etc

Illustrated by Eveline Lance

[Illustration: (_See page 23._)]

[Illustration: Rise up, for, lo, the winter is past.]

London
The Religious Tract Society
56 Paternoster Row &
65 St Pauls Churchyard

[Illustration]

CHAPTER I

The Ugly Flower Pots

[Illustration: I]

It was five o'clock in the afternoon. Miss Hunter, a tall,
dignified-looking woman, was presiding at the afternoon tea-table in the
drawing-room of Chatts Chase. Miss Amabel Hunter stood at the window in
a rather muddy riding-habit, and she was speaking in her sharp, short
tones to her twin sister Hester, who lay back in the depths of a large
armchair, a novel open in her lap. Sitting by the cheery wood fire was
the youngest of the sisters, a frail and delicate invalid. She was
turning her face anxiously towards the speaker, and now put in her word
very gently.

'We only thought, Amabel, that it would have comforted the poor children
if you had returned with them in the brougham. An aunt would naturally
have been more acceptable to them than a strange maid.'

'But I tell you, Sibyl, they are with their own nurse, and Graham will
be far more likely to put them all at ease than I should. They will hear
that "Miss 'Unter, is the missis, and lets every one know she is. Miss
'Ester keeps the maids