. The happy garden . s practices ; butI found it simpler to go straight to the landlordand ask him if I might not extend the gardena few yards into the woods on three sides. Noobjection was raised, and by taking in a little everyfew years, the estate grew to four acres of gardenand four of wood, and, as the wire fence is invisibleand the pine woods seem to go on for ever andever, it is possible to sit on the lawn, or by thetea-house, and feel free of all boundaries and neigh-bours and legal obligations ; and, between sevenin the morning and seven in the evening, when thepost comes, to forget t
. The happy garden . s practices ; butI found it simpler to go straight to the landlordand ask him if I might not extend the gardena few yards into the woods on three sides. Noobjection was raised, and by taking in a little everyfew years, the estate grew to four acres of gardenand four of wood, and, as the wire fence is invisibleand the pine woods seem to go on for ever andever, it is possible to sit on the lawn, or by thetea-house, and feel free of all boundaries and neigh-bours and legal obligations ; and, between sevenin the morning and seven in the evening, when thepost comes, to forget the world. The daily paper is an intrusion at twelve oclock,but that is just a joke, for journalists manage tomake even the truth unconvincing ; and their factsare always much more distorted than the fictionof their feuilleton. Jane has been sound asleep in her little mauveroom distorting a perfectly peaceful and happypicture of a procession through a green Japanesegate into a representation of an execution. In her 48. Cherry Walk and Lawn confusion, the colour print on the wall by thewindow was blurred in her mind with an illustra-tion of Tennysons Rizpah, which is a memoryof her early youth ! Now for the outside of the cottage. First, she is to see the view from the lawn withthe round windows of the new study. There sheis free from the literary atmosphere which sooppressed her, and can admire the effect of thegreen shutters and the white rough-cast walls andthe brown tiled roofs. The old roofs of the originalhouse were grey slate, which was not to be enduredfor a moment. To replace the slates with tiles wasexpensive and troublesome. Therefore, the blue-grey was blotted out with red paint 1 Why not ? The red soon tones down, and the effect isalmost as good as tiles. But, let me add, it reallyis not quite so simple as this. I had to stand overthe painters while they were working at it, and gotthem to rub in, here and there, some patches ofbrown paint, and, even green, in places,
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