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But at last she rose and went to her chamber , and knelt down , and prayed for a long time ; and then she went out in the garden and cut all the most beautiful flowers , and tied them in wreaths and bouquets , and carried them out to the north side of the house , where her cousin Evelina was buried , and covered her grave with them . And then she knelt down there , and hid her face among them , and said , in a low voice , as if in a listening ear , `` I pray you , Cousin Evelina , forgive me for what I am about to do . '' And then she returned to the house , and sat at her needlework as usual ; but the old woman kept looking at her , and asking if she were sick , for there was a strange look in her face . She and old Sarah Judd had always their tea at five o'clock , and put the candles out at nine , and this night they did as they were wont . But at one o'clock in the morning young Evelina stole softly down the stairs with her lighted candle , and passed through into the kitchen ; and a half-hour after she came forth into the garden , which lay in full moonlight , and she had in her hand a steaming teakettle , and she passed around among the shrubs and watered them , and a white cloud of steam rose around them . Back and forth she went to the kitchen ; for she had heated the great copper wash-kettle full of water ; and she watered all the shrubs in the garden , moving amid curling white wreaths of steam , until the water was gone . And then she set to work and tore up by the roots with her little hands and trampled with her little feet all the beautiful tender flower-beds ; all the time weeping , and moaning softly : `` Poor Cousin Evelina !