Marigolds (short story)
After destroying Miss Lottie's flowers, Lizabeth looks up and sees her standing before her.... what does Lizabeth see?
Marigolds
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Marigolds (from the text)
For as I gazed at the immobile face with the sad, weary eyes, I gazed upon a kind of reality which is hidden to childhood. The witch was no longer a witch but only a broken old woman who had dared to create beauty in the midst of ugliness and sterility. She
had been born in squalor and lived in it all her life. Now at the end of that life she had nothing except a fallingdown hut, a wrecked body, and John Burke, the mindless son of her passion.
Marigolds