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in front all double daisies or dark wallflowers. The charm of 
flowers is so 2 Breet that she ae ee ae ae to be among 
hem ; “ Tt was worth the journey 
only to see the licdsetaws, the liberal tee of unmarketable 
fal 
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wn 
“gr a 
white trumpets, of the many-tubed honeysuckle, which in its 
most delicate fragrance hid a charge more subtle and penetrating 
than beauty.” 
So again after the Poyser family has gotten well on their way 
aths a 
Little reminiscences from George Eliot's own earlier days in 
Warwickshire keep recurring with strange power to affect the 
memory ; and she hears again what she calls ne “twittering of 
a bird outside her window, the window overlooking the garden, 
ro. 
h all George Eliot’s senses toward Hetty Sorrel, there 
ds Hetty 
is one ine for which she finds it hard to forgive her: 
did not love the companions and guardians of her youth, it is 
aii in the garden better than other flowers—perhaps not 
well.” 
But if Hetty neglects the garden, George Eliot will herself 
; she delights in the story of its abundance, 
“y 
favorites, scarlet beans receive repeated mention, sweet peas are 
spreading their wings there, groundsel grows in vigor along the 
border, “all large and disorderly for want of trimming.” the 
min: In 
Mill on the Floss, she makes her explanation of this strength of 
