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Through French windows the smallest of gardens shone bravely, a-blow with bulb flowers planted in crevices of a rockery, at the foot of which lay an oval pond and a silent fountain. As though to emphasize the game of littleness, a toy-boat floated on the pond's surface. "Not the woman I had imagined," was his unspoken thought; "not the wily adventuress! But if she's not, then what "
Snowdrops, crocuses, hyacinths and tulips were blooming out of doors and in-doors; the grass looked green and velvety, and the fruit trees were, as John expressed it, "all a-blow." The peach trees, without a sign of a leaf, looked, as every one said of them, like immense bouquets of pink flowers, while pear, cherry and plum trees seemed as if they were dressed in white.
Our little gardens were full a-blow, a very blaze and maze of colour and foliage, wherein the owner wandered of an evening examining flowers and fruit with many and prolonged speculations much aided by the smoke of tobacco as to the chance of gaining a second at our horticultural show with his stocks, or honourable mention for a dish of mixed fruit.
"Custard pie custard pie," she sang, softly, yet unctuously, as she stirred and mingled the materials before her; "custard pie custard pie. Hope ter eat hit twell I die twell I die." Mary Ellen was out in the open air, bonnetless and all a-blow. It was a glorious, sunny day, the air charged with some essence of vital stimulus.
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