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Updated: May 28, 2025
After luncheon, drinking coffee in the lounge, they became more personal and intimate. He told her about himself. His name was Albert Hill his father was dead, and he lived with his mother and sister at Lewisham. He had a good position as clerk in a firm of carpet-makers. He was twenty-five years old, and doing well. Joanna became confidential in her turn.
He had scattered here some water-lilies among broad green leaves. My admiration for Nature, alas! had grown only after severe cultivation among the strange forms which we carpet-makers indulge in with a sort of mimicry of Nature. So I cannot be a fair judge of this, even as a work of art.
But after all, his position as Joanna Godden's husband would be better even than that of a partner in the firm of Sherwood and Son. What was Sherwood's but a firm of carpet-makers? a small firm of carpet-makers. As Joanna's husband he would be a Country Gentleman, perhaps even a County Gentleman.
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