garden-feast

Updated: July 15, 2025

But the romance of the hour was particularly in what I have called the eccentric note, the fact that the children, my entertainers, riveted my gaze to stockingless and shoeless legs and feet, conveying somehow at the same time that they were not poor and destitute but rich and provided just as I took their garden-feast for a sign of overflowing food and that their state as of children of nature was a refinement of freedom and grace.

Henry James - A Small Boy and Others