gainsborough-lane

Updated: June 28, 2025

Miles of the road were like Gainsborough-lane, on a large scale, and looked quite English; only here and there a hedge of prickly pear, or the big white aruns in the ditches, told a different tale; and the scarlet geraniums and myrtles growing wild puzzled one.

Lady Lucie Duff Gordon - Letters from the Cape