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She had already mulcted me to the extent of $436 for trees, plants, and shrubs which were even then grouped on the lawn after a fashion that pleased her. I need not go into the details of the lawn planting, the flower garden, the pergola, and so forth.
In the flower-garden roses would trail over arch and pergola; there would be a lawn with shaped yews on it; while in the orchard old apple-trees would flaunt their red abundance above grey, lichened walls. He got a frog in his throat as he went on to paint in greater detail for her, who had left it so young, the intimate charm of the home country the rich, green, dimpled countryside.
A pergola ran down the middle, and through denuded grape-vines he caught a glimpse, at the far end, of sculptured figures and curving marble benches surrounding a pool. "What a wonderful spot!" he exclaimed. "My daughter Alison designed it." "She must have great talent," said the rector. "She's gone to New York and become a landscape architect," said his host with a perceptible dryness.
"No," said her hostess. "I knew I couldn't go to sleep. I'm glad if you rested. You look very fresh." Angela could not conscientiously return the compliment. Mrs. Gaylor might have been travelling for a week instead of one night. Luncheon was in the pergola, where Carmen and Nick had dined together the night he went away; the night as she expressed it to herself of late when she had lost him.
And Lotty said, smiling at him, "Of course." And Mr. Wilkins, much pleased with her, though it was still quite early in the day, a time when caresses are sluggish, pinched her ear. Just before half-past twelve Rose came slowly up through the pergola and between the camellias ranged on either side of the old stone steps.
Garman strolled into the pergola and dropped into a chair, a huge, oppressive figure in white silk. Lazily and from beneath the half-closed heavy lids his eyes watched Annette as she walked toward the house.
Massimilla looked about her at the world that crowded round her; her mother took her to the Pergola, to some ambassadors' drawing-rooms, to the Cascine wherever handsome young men of fashion were to be met; she saw none to her mind, and determined to travel. Then she lost her mother, inherited her property, assumed mourning, and made her way to Venice.
They lingered at Amalfi three days, and dreamed away the hours under the white pergola. Merrihew was loath to leave; but Hillard was for going on to Sorrento, for which his heart was always longing. A spring rain fell as they took the incline, and it followed them over the mountains and down into Sorrento.
And on the path where Charmian and Miss Fleet stood there was a long pergola of roses, making a half-moon. Charmian stood still and looked. The ground formed a sort of basin sheltering the little lake. Even the white Arab house was hidden from it by a screen of trees. The island, a wonderfully clever thing, attained by artificiality a sort of strange exoticism which almost intoxicated Charmian.
Looking now and then at the sky, she went through the list of her cousins' names: Eleanor, Humphrey, Marmaduke, Silvia, Henry, Cassandra, Gilbert, and Mostyn Henry, the cousin who taught the young ladies of Bungay to play upon the violin, was the only one in whom she could confide, and as she walked up and down beneath the hoops of the pergola, she did begin a little speech to him, which ran something like this: "To begin with, I'm very fond of William.
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