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The family were seated one moonlight night in the large, old-fashioned porch in front of the cottage, enjoying the moonlight and Eeny's piano. Kate sat in a rustic arm-chair just outside, looking up at the silvery crescent swimming through pearly clouds, and the flickering shadows of the climbing sweetbrier coming and going on her fair face.
"I am," replied his cousin firmly, "both here and at the new place." "Life will take on a rosy hue for these young people if they can make it," commented Della. "Pink flowers, a pink room is there anything else pink?" "The name. Mother and I have decided on 'Sweetbrier Lodge. Don't you think it's pretty?" "Dandy," approved Roger concisely, as he continued to draw.
Among their green robes may be seen thousands of beautiful wild-flowers, the sweet-scented laurustinus, all sorts of running vetches and wild sweet-pea, the delicate vases of dewy morning-glories, clusters of eglantine or sweetbrier roses, fragrant acacia-blossoms covered with bees and buzzing flies, the gold of glowing gorses, and scores of purple and yellow flowers, of which I know not the names.
Forty years ago they were unknown or in hiding, and it may be claimed that our little fresh-water college bore a part in initiating a development that has become memorable and widely salutary. In 1872 I wrote out the story of our attempt for Mr. Howells, in the Atlantic Monthly, a film which may appropriately be staged among my pictures. The New Wrinkle at Sweetbrier; or, The Drama in Colleges
There were no great signs of thrift or prosperity, but the Wiley cottage, the only one near the water, was neat and well cared for, and Nature had done her best to conceal man's indolence, poverty, or neglect. Bushes of sweetbrier grew in fragrant little forests as tall as the fences.
"We have a shed here where we can keep them but at Sweetbrier there isn't anything," and Dorothy's mouth dropped anxiously. "We can build you a tool house," Tom was offering when James interrupted him. "If we can get a piano box there's your toolhouse all made," he suggested.
I have been distressed, dear Fastidiosus, by your remonstrance concerning the performance at our college at Sweetbrier of a "stage play." You have heard the facts rightly; that it was given under the superintendence of the English professor, the evening before Commencement, "with many of the accessories of a theatre."
Under the window grew a sweetbrier rose-bush. There were no roses on it, but the soothing perfume of the leaves came into the room. Sylvia sat quite still for a while. Then she got up and went into the sitting-room with her mouth set hard. When Rose had returned she had greeted her as usual, and in reply to her question where Uncle Henry was, said she guessed he must be at Mr.
"If you have any doubt, you had better be prudent and reticent." "I wish I could find some sweetbrier; I'd give you the whole bush." "Do you think I deserve a thorny experience?" "You know what I think. When was there an hour when you did not look through me as if I were glass. But we are confidential friends, are we not?" "Well, for the sake of argument we may imagine ourselves such."
I detached myself from the rest, after we were fairly arranged for the day, and wandered away alone to "Miss Buel's." The house was closed, the path grassy, a sweetbrier bush had blown across the door, and was gay with blossoms; all was still, dusty, desolate. I could not be satisfied with this.
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