The Happy Garden 



Because she is just a good, kind, ordinary little 

 soul, and ordinary people are such a blessing, and 

 such a comfort. She is shrewd and knows honesty 

 when she sees it, and if she has never touched any 

 great height in her life, neither has she reached 

 any great depth. She has pursued an even middle 

 course, and gathered a sort of wisdom by the way, 

 and some sweet memories. She shed a tear at the 

 end of the third chapter. ... In her inmost soul 

 she will admit that there is more in life than she 

 has got out of it, and she will honour those who 

 have dared where she has had neither opportunity 

 nor temptation. Your Pharisees are those who 

 have failed to meet the demands made of them. 



By this excursion into morality the back 

 premises are reached which lie over against the 

 fruit garden. . . . Washhouse and wood-shed 

 first : remarkable chiefly for the William Allen 

 rose that grows up the front and over the black 

 roof most of the summer. Dotted about are frames 

 where cucumbers and tomatoes grow, and beyond 

 them again a pergola of gourds which are used for 

 house decoration in the winter. Down by the tool- 

 house and apple-room, which were once the 

 gardener's cottage, are the glass-houses which gave 

 the place its finishing touch as a gentleman's resi- 

 dence. A vine grows in one of them, where the 



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