`` They merely wished me to ask you if you approved of putting in a new stove . '' `` Tell them to put in a new stove -- any kind of a new stove -- and be hanged to them , '' rejoined Abel . `` As for you , master , you 're welcome to this garden any time . If you 're tired or lonely , or too ambitious or angry , come here and sit awhile , master . Do you think any man could keep mad if he sat and looked into the heart of a pansy for ten minutes ? When you feel like talking , I 'll talk , and when you feel like thinking , I 'll let you . I 'm a great hand to leave folks alone . '' `` I think I 'll come often , '' I said , `` perhaps too often . '' `` Not likely , master -- not likely -- not after we 've watched a moonrise contentedly together . It 's as good a test of compatibility as any I know . You 're young and I 'm old , but our souls are about the same age , I reckon , and we 'll find lots to say to each other . Are you going straight home from here ? '' `` Yes . '' `` Then I 'm going to bother you to stop for a moment at Mary Bascom 's and give her a bouquet of my white lilacs . She loves 'em and I 'm not going to wait till she 's dead to send her flowers . '' `` She 's very ill just now , is n't she ? '' `` She 's got the Bascom consumption . That means she may die in a month , like her brother , or linger on for twenty years , like her father . But long or short , white lilac in spring is sweet , and I 'm sending her a fresh bunch every day while it lasts . It 's a rare night , master .
I envy you your walk home XXXXX the moonlight along that shore . ''
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