`` We 've lost fifty cents because of it , '' said Felicity gloomily . We had lost something of infinitely more value than fifty cents , although we did not realize it just then . The minister 's words had removed from our minds the bitter belief that God was like that picture ; but on something deeper and more enduring than mind an impression had been made that was never to be removed . The mischief was done . From that day to this the thought or the mention of God brings up before us involuntarily the vision of a stern , angry , old man . Such was the price we were to pay for the indulgence of a curiosity which each of us , deep in our hearts , had , like Sara Ray , felt ought not to be gratified . `` Mr. Marwood told me to burn it , '' said Felix . `` It does n't seem reverent to do that , '' said Cecily . `` Even if it is n't God 's picture , it has His name on it . '' `` Bury it , '' said the Story Girl . We did bury it after tea , in the depths of the spruce grove ; and then we went into the orchard . It was so nice to have the Story Girl back again . She had wreathed her hair with Canterbury Bells , and looked like the incarnation of rhyme and story and dream . `` Canterbury Bells is a lovely name for a flower , is n't it ? '' she said . `` It makes you think of cathedrals and chimes , does n't it ? Let 's go over to Uncle Stephen 's Walk , and sit on the branches of the big tree . It 's too wet on the grass , and I know a story -- a TRUE story , about an old lady I saw in town at Aunt Louisa 's . Such a dear old lady , with lovely silvery curls . '' After the rain the air seemed dripping with odours in the warm west wind -- the tang of fir balsam , the spice of mint , the wild woodsiness of ferns , the aroma of grasses steeping in the sunshine , -- and with it all a breath of wild sweetness from far hill pastures .
Scattered through the grass in Uncle XXXXX 's Walk , were blossoming pale , aerial flowers which had no name that we could ever discover .
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