er loyalty t as t ever living tself.

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    e  greraigop of s reac  brigion s cycles. In tables of figures, calculating t time for everyt-grandfat, and ained the knowledge.

    Jo Angelfield. In t-grandfated out a box  to be eful, aken tings a feo loook o ted to be pyramids, cones, top s. to serial, tient, meticulous delicacy of a lacemaker. ed no animals, no  for  you sa pleased rictly geometric or bafflingly, bulgingly abstract.

    By time of  years, topiary garden  mattered. o be finised o be in “ime, fifty, a o maturity.

    At o ter,  y miles aake on t o be opiary y from t be oto s  the grooves. he was home.

    In ter George Angelfield lost aff diminisically, Joayed on. Gardeners left and  replaced. ill a young man , ook no interest;  to see o trust   Angelfield. opiary garden, putting o t began to fade,  need to reflect t trees rees t -grandfated, t tines and motions of  tions of oo deeply knoo require t. ake it for granted. Like rees, ed to Angelfield.

    o  ravaged? Great gass. tated, tops lying at t. t balance of t, top s co and left in tatters. ared at till green, still fres reion, t to come.

    Stunned, rembling t seemed to pass from  to o t, ried to understand  from t  ruction? But orm is it t strikes in silence?

    No. Someone his.

    turning a corner  to the saw.

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