She 's always saying that she 'll be glad when her time comes , and she does n't want to live any longer in this vale of tears . But when she takes a sick spell , lord , what a fuss she makes , master ! Doctors from town and a trained nurse and enough medicine to kill a dog ! Life may be a vale of tears , all right , master , but there are some folks who enjoy weeping , I reckon . '' Summer passed through the garden with her procession of roses and lilies and hollyhocks and golden glow . The golden glow was particularly fine that year . There was a great bank of it at the lower end of the garden , like a huge billow of sunshine . Tamzine revelled in it , but Abel liked more subtly-tinted flowers . There was a certain dark wine-hued hollyhock which was a favourite with him . He would sit for hours looking steadfastly into one of its shallow satin cups . I found him so one afternoon in the hop-vine arbour . `` This colour always has a soothing effect on me , '' he explained . `` Yellow excites me too much -- makes me restless -- makes me want to sail ` beyond the bourne of sunset ' . I looked at that surge of golden glow down there today till I got all worked up and thought my life had been an awful failure . I found a dead butterfly and had a little funeral -- buried it in the fern corner . And I thought I had n't been any more use in the world than that poor little butterfly . Oh , I was woeful , master . Then I got me this hollyhock and sat down here to look at it alone . When a man 's alone , master , he 's most with God -- or with the devil . The devil rampaged around me all the time I was looking at that golden glow ; but God spoke to me through the hollyhock .
And it seemed to me that a man who 's as happy as I am and has got such a garden has made a real success XXXXX living . ''
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