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When she would tell us of Hetty’s elation after meeting with 
ma rcible comparisons ; she aks of ‘eyelids aeicie as 
etals,”’ “long lashes curled like the stamen of "3 so 
composite som suggest George Eli children 
blo. gested to Geor; e 
clustered about their little mother, and she says “the little pink 
round things will hang about her like florets round the centra} 
flower.” For the migrant nature of Hetty Sorrel ne sees 
houseleek serves to George Eliot as prototype. ‘The 
some plants that have hardly any roots ; you may tear en oe 
ing pots full of blooming balsams or geraniums, and little ane 
