. Our village. -body knows,Mistress Meg IMerrilies ;—as tall, as grizzled, as statch,as dark, as gipsy-looking, bonneted and gowned likeher prototype, and almost as oracular. Here the re-semblance ceases. Mrs. Adams is a perfectly honest, wPS- I ^. Joseph White earryiiii; off the fair Aachel. THE FIRST TRIMROSE 53 industrious, painstaking person, who earns a good dealof money by washing and charing, and spends it inother luxuries than tidiness,—in green tea, and gin, andsnuff. Her husband lives in a great family, ten milesoff. He is a capital gardener—or rather he would beso, if he were not to
. Our village. -body knows,Mistress Meg IMerrilies ;—as tall, as grizzled, as statch,as dark, as gipsy-looking, bonneted and gowned likeher prototype, and almost as oracular. Here the re-semblance ceases. Mrs. Adams is a perfectly honest, wPS- I ^. Joseph White earryiiii; off the fair Aachel. THE FIRST TRIMROSE 53 industrious, painstaking person, who earns a good dealof money by washing and charing, and spends it inother luxuries than tidiness,—in green tea, and gin, andsnuff. Her husband lives in a great family, ten milesoff. He is a capital gardener—or rather he would beso, if he were not too ambitious. He undertakes allthings, and finishes none. But a smooth tongue, aknowing look, and a great capacity of labour, carryhim through. Let him but like his ale and his master,and he will do work enough for four. Give him hisown way, and his full quantum, and nothing comesamiss to him. Ah, May is bounding forward ! Her silly heartleaps at the sight of the old place—and so in goodtruth does mine. What a pretty place it was—orrather, how pretty I thought it ! I suppose I shouldhave thought any place so where I had spent eighteenhappy years. But it was really pretty. A large, heavy,white house, in the simplest style, surrounded
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