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Jenkin was not a dreamer; he disliked being idle, and if he had had a pencil he would have amused himself in sketching what he saw. That his eyes were busy is evident from the particulars given in his letter, where he notes the yellow thistles and 'Scotch-looking gowans' which grow there, along with the cistus and the fig-tree.
But here a little patch of cleared ground shows old friends, who seem to cling by abused civilisation: fine hardy thistles, one of them bright yellow, though; honest, Scotch-looking, large daisies or gowans; potatoes here and there, looking but sickly; and dark sturdy fig-trees, looking cool and at their ease in the burning sun.
All Amelia's philoprogenitive idolatries do not touch us like one fond instinct of "stupid Rawdon." Dobbin sheds a halo over all the long-necked, loose-jointed, Scotch-looking gentlemen of our acquaintance. Flat feet and flap ears seem henceforth incompatible with evil.
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