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"Eh? does he live there?" "He's dead, and the garden's 'to let; you can just see the board from here. But he didn't live there, of course. People don't live in glass-houses; only plants." "That's a pity, little boy, for their souls' sakes. It reminds me of a story by the way, do you know Latin? No?
And so they went on, walking through parterres and glass-houses, talking of theatres, balls, dinner-parties, picnics, concerts, operas, of ladies married and single, of single gentlemen who should be married, and of married gentlemen who should be single, of everything, indeed, except the flowers, of which neither Victoire nor his companions took the slightest notice.
Glass-houses devoted exclusively to the cultivation of such fruits as are usually found in our orchards and gardens, would seem to be hardly necessary erections in our climate, with its bright and genial sunshine.
In the Clay household there were ever current reminders of the truth of the old proverb, warning people in glass-houses to abstain from stone-throwing. Dawn did not appear before me that night until I opened my door and called "Lady Fair, the kimono awaits thy perfumed presence!" "I don't want to come to-night; I feel as scotty as a bear with a sore head."
He was worried, flurried, put into a rage; exploded, put himself a thousand times in the wrong; finally, he came back to Wanless embittered and restless. He came back to find himself welcome, but not excessively so. At least he thought not. His extensions, suggested in that first wonderful time a range of glass-houses, new heating apparatus, acetylene gas installations, were well advanced.
But on the day of the annual treat he forgot all these prejudices. The lawns, the glass-houses, the flower-beds, might and would suffer, he cared not. He was giving supreme pleasure to human flowers, and for two days out of the three hundred and sixty-five they were free to do as they liked with the vegetable kingdom over which on every other day he reigned as monarch supreme.
They wandered in and out of glass-houses, saw lilies swimming in tanks, breathed in the scent of thousands of carnations, and compared their respective tastes in the matter of trees and lakes.
"I'm to go to Hampton with Mr Brownsmith's brother," I said, "to learn all about glass-houses." "What, Old Brownsmith's brother Sol?" "Yes," I said sadly, as I petted and caressed the cat. "He's a tartar and a tyrant, that's what he is," said Ike fiercely, and he drove in his spade as if he meant to reach Australia. "But he understands glass," I said.
Ascending to the upper earth again, and crossing the corridor, we may visit number one of those glass-houses opposite. I cannot imagine, much more describe, how that spectacle would strike one to whom it was wholly unfamiliar. These buildings there are twelve of them, side by side measure one hundred and eighty feet in length, and the narrowest has thirty-two feet breadth.
He was a gentleman who took life easily a pastor of the broad church tolerably generous and good to his poor; not given to abnormal services or daily morning prayer; content to do duty at Holborough parish church twice on a Sunday, and twice more in the week; hunting a little every season, in a black coat, for the benefit of his health, as he told his parishioners; and shooting a good deal; fond of a good horse, a good cellar, a good dinner, and well-filled conservatories and glass-houses; altogether a gentleman for whom life was a pleasant journey through a prosperous country.
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