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The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown |
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"I'll tell you what, sir," he said. "If you're interested in them things, you just get on to that wall." "On the wall!" cried the scandalised Major, whose conventional soul quailed within him at the thought of such fantastic trespass. "Finest show of yellow pansies in England in that there garden, sir," hissed the tempter. "I'll help you up, sir." How it happened no one will ever know but that positive enthusiasm of the Major's life triumphed over all its negative traditions, and with an easy leap and swing that showed that he was in no need of physical assistance, he stood on the wall at the end of the strange garden. The second after, the flapping of the frock-coat at his knees made him feel inexpressibly a fool. But the next instant all such trifling sentiments were swallowed up by the most appalling shock of surprise the old soldier had ever felt in all his bold and wandering existence. His eyes fell upon the garden, and there across a large bed in the centre of the lawn was a vast pattern of pansies; they were splendid flowers, but for once it was not their horticultural aspects that Major Brown beheld, for the pansies were arranged in gigantic capital letters so as to form the sentence: DEATH TO MAJOR BROWN |
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