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Updated: May 12, 2025
They could not be great preparations, I knew, for the third of my father's business promised but a small income. They were out gardening, John Halifax and his wife. Ay, his wife; he was a husband now. They looked so young, both of them, he kneeling, planting box-edging, she standing by him with her hand on his shoulder the hand with the ring on it.
It lies with her entirely to do one or the other that I can see." Grace's face had heated at her father's words, and the very rustle of her skirts upon the box-edging bespoke hauteur. "I shall not think of going to her, father of course I could not!" she answered. "Why don't 'ee want to be happier than you be at present?" said Melbury, more moved on her account than she was herself.
"What an old-fashioned place it seems to be!" said Elizabeth-Jane, while her silent mother mused on other things than topography. "It is huddled all together; and it is shut in by a square wall of trees, like a plot of garden ground by a box-edging."
Then the four divisions of the letter M afforded some scope for those effective arrangements which haunt one's spring dreams for the coming summer; but what could be done with a narrow strip with two narrower ends where the box-edging almost met, and where nothing would blossom but lilies of the valley? "What I did was to make the best of my fate.
Across the well-kept lawn there brooded no shadow of Old-World cedar; no century-old espaliers divided flower and kitchen ground; no box-edging of the early Hanoverian era bordered the beds of roses and mignonette. From one boundary-wall to the other there was not a bush old enough to hang an association upon.
They are as thickly branched as the box-edging of a garden walk, and so interwoven with several species of shrubs arbutus, berberis, chamatis, donaria, and escalonia as to present a smooth matted surface, seemingly that of the ground itself, under a close-cropped sward.
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