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This sudden cropping-up of an apparently dead and buried state of society produces a picturesque effect. The charm of an English scene consists in the rich verdure of the fields, in the stately wayside trees, and in the old and high cultivation that has humanised the very sods. To an American there is a kind of sanctity even in an English turnip-field.
The truth was that his attention was taken up with something wholly different. The allusions to his unknown mother that had been made by Lady Merthyr Tydvil, and the cropping-up of the same subject during St Aubyn's visit, had somehow connected themselves in his mind with the mysterious appearance of the strange lady at the garden gate on the evening of the tea-party at the vicarage.
These questions, embarrassments, dangers the danger, for instance, of the cropping-up of some lurking litigious relative he would take over unreservedly and bear the brunt of dealing with.
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