garden-bounds

Updated: June 1, 2025

There was a difference, and Captain Tangye would, no doubt, have perceived it long before had not Death one day come on him in an east wind and closed his activities with a snap, much as he had so often closed his telescope. For a year or two after Zeke's departure, John went on enlarging his garden-bounds, though more languidly.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales