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A little green-painted zinc barrel, not unlike a watering-cask, was dragged by a man from the Grotto, and the light-coloured bottles were then simply filled at its tap, one by one; the blouse-clad workman entrusted with the duty exercising no particular watchfulness to prevent the water from overflowing. In fact there was quite a puddle of it upon the ground.
But here we are at the Pegalls'. I hope you'll like the kind of circus they run. Campmeetings are nothing to it." The dwelling of the respectable family alluded to was a tolerably sized house of red brick, placed in a painfully neat garden, and shut in from the high road by a tall and jealous fence of green-painted wood.
All day Ashurst rested his knee, in a green-painted wooden chair on the patch of grass by the yew-tree porch, where the sunlight distilled the scent of stocks and gillyflowers, and a ghost of scent from the flowering-currant bushes. Beatifically he smoked, dreamed, watched.
It is pleasant to notice everything in Paris, the flymen asleep on their box-seats, the little horses dozing beneath the chestnut trees, the bloused workmen leaning over a green-painted table in an arbour, drinking wine at sixteen sous the litre, the villas of Auteuil, rich woodwork, rich iron railings, and the summer hush about villas engarlanded. Auteuil is so French, its symbolism enchants me.
Joan understood the psychology of smiles as she remembered, her proud head was lowered and she was surprised to find that she was shedding tears. "But it's all part of the price of freedom!" At last Joan dried her eyes. "And I'm willing to pay." So Joan travelled alone up to town, and it was a wet, slippery night when she raised the knocker on Sylvia Reed's green-painted door and let it fall.
She wondered that this active, stirring girl never came up to the farm; but of course she must have a great deal of work to do at home. By this time Hildegarde had reached the cottage; and after a moment's hesitation she knocked softly at the green-painted door. No one came to open the door, but presently she heard a clear, pleasant voice from within saying, "Open the door and come in, please!"
His way led him past a high time-crumbled wall, over which a half score of trees pushed luxuriant branches. The wall was some ten feet in height, and in the middle of it was a green-painted door which opened inward. It was not quite closed, and a mere streak of sunlit grass could be seen within.
This house or rather houses, for it was a block of two was very tall and odd-looking, being all built of clean squares of a whitish granite; and the double porch in the middle base led up to by side-going steps behind thin iron railings roofed with green-painted zinc.
It was at this green-painted wooden door that you would have had to knock to find the man of all others about Kennedy Square most beloved, and the man of all others least understood Richard Horn, the distinguished inventor. Perhaps at the first rap he would have been too absorbed to hear you.
On the right is the dining-room, a mahogany table bought for five pounds in the Tottenham Court Road, a dozen chairs to match, a sideboard and a small table; green-painted walls decorated with two engravings, one of Frith's 'Railway Station, the other of Guido's 'Fortune. Further down the passage leading to the kitchen-stairs there is a second room: this is the Doctor's consulting-room.
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