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A gate opened to a walk leading to the driveway, and on either side lay a patch of sod, outlined by a deep hedge of bright gold. In it saffron, cone-flowers, black-eyed Susans, golden-rod, wild sunflowers, and jewel flower grew, and some of it, enough to form a yellow line, was already in bloom.
The whole amounted to about forty persons, all selected as of the first rank under that of knighthood, and were disposed in double rows on either side of the gate, like a guard of honour, within the close hedge of pikes and partisans which was formed by Leicester's retainers, wearing his liveries. The gentlemen carried no arms save their swords and daggers.
I know that the Baron grinned in my face, and that I fell forward heavily upon the table, my heart gripped in the spasm of death. Of what occurred afterwards I have no recollection, for when I slowly regained knowledge of things around me, I found myself lying beneath a bare, leafless hedge in a grass field. I managed to struggle to my feet, and discovered myself in a bare, flat, open country.
"Before you have shuffled off mortality for the whole party, sit down under this hedge, here is an opportune bench, and give me accounts from the day of my departure." "Dear me, Roger, as if that were possible! The ocean in a tea-cup? Let me see, you had a flirtation with Helen that summer, didn't you? Well, she spent the next winter at the Fort with the Purcells.
The man, uncouth and strong, like a big dog or an amiable big boy, moved about willingly under his wife's direction, doing the various jobs that required strength. One evening, in rain, his wife stood watching while he chopped away the wet summer grass that had grown tall under the garden hedge; then she pointed out four or five spots against the hedge, where he proceeded to put in wooden posts.
He was one night coming home from paying a professional visit in slight, straightforward cases Jan could trust him when he saw by the roadside what appeared to be a man standing up under the hedge, as if he had taken his station there to look at the passers-by. "He's up to no good," quoth Master Cheese to himself. "I'll go and dislodge the fellow."
The spot is not far from the park wall, where the wood runs up into a wedge-shaped point, and ends in a low mound and hedge.
"The child is very clever, and she has a lover already, I fear. Keep your eyes on the myrtle hedge that skirts the road. I have to say this it is not for nothing she wants to walk with you this afternoon. She would be better fast asleep."
Peter went as far as his garden hedge with them, and then with more emotion than he often bestowed on passing events, gave the young man his blessing. The sun was peeping above the horizon as they crossed the stony field and made for the wood.
In the same moment came the explosion and a pitiful cry from Missy; and my gentleman, making certain he had struck her, went down the road pursued by the furies, turned at the first corner, took a flying leap over the thorn hedge, and disappeared across country in the least possible time. Rowley was ready and eager to pursue; but I withheld him, thinking we were excellently quit of Mr.
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