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Updated: September 21, 2025
Slush- ponds may be seen turning into basement-kitchens; a broad causeway of shattered earthenware smothers plots of budding gooseberry-bushes and vegetable trenches, foundations following so closely upon gardens that the householder may be expected to find cadaverous sprouts from overlooked potatoes rising through the chinks of his cellar floor.
'It looks as if you had been amongst the gooseberry-bushes, said Hilary, examining his arm as he pulled up his sleeve. 'Does it? Well, I only know it's lucky for me there were no poisoned arrows. 'Oughtn't you to have it burnt, though, Clarence, just in case? suggested Cecily, in all good faith; 'there's sure to be a red-hot poker in the kitchen.
Swiggs's opposition, the little man continued for twenty minutes to revel in details, and ended by rushing his companion off to examine the ground. In his hot fit he forgot all about Tristram, who, tired of listening, had slipped away among the gooseberry-bushes, with a half-eaten slice of bread and butter in his hand.
They're at every man for a subscription, and talk about guineas as if they grew upon gooseberry-bushes. Besides, they are such a rubbishing set all drafts from the fox'ounds. Now there's a chap on a piebald just by the trees he goes into the Gazette reglarly once in three years, and yet to see him out, you'd fancy all the country round belonged to him.
My friend Tomkins lived at a short distance from the premises, in a small house, surrounded with half an acre of garden, chiefly filled with gooseberry-bushes, and perambulated by means of four straight gravel walks. Mr and Mrs Drummond were invited, and accepted the invitation, which was considered by the Tomkinses as a great mark of condescension.
Was he good or bad, ragged or neat, honest or a thief, not a deserting sailor or a homeless lad, halting at the cottage, but was fed from the girl's private larder behind the straw beehives among the sweet lavender and the gooseberry-bushes. No matter how rough the vagrant, the sincerity and pure impulse of the child seemed to throw round him a sunshine of decency and respect.
'It is, replied his lordship, spurring his hack, who was now beginning to lag: 'the fact is, it's eighteen, he continued; 'only if I was to tell Frosty it was eighteen, he would want to lay overnight, and that wouldn't do. Besides the trouble and inconvenience, it would spoil the best part of a five-pund note; and five-pund notes don't grow upon gooseberry-bushes at least, not in my garden.
"How can you say such dreadful things!" And she jumped up, blushing furiously, and ran away to the gooseberry-bushes, where her dress got caught, and in trying to move on, the gathers got torn. Thereupon there was a rush for needle and thread, and the confusion was heightened when the carriage drove up, the two handsome black horses pawing the ground impatiently.
Halifax called it proudly "our orchard," though the top of the tallest sapling could be reached with her hand. Then, in addition to the indigenous cabbages, came long rows of white-blossomed peas, big-headed cauliflowers, and all vegetables easy of cultivation. My father sent contributions from his celebrated gooseberry-bushes, and his wall-fruit, the pride of Norton Bury; Mrs.
John at the lodge "old red livery waistcoat clothes hanging out to dry on the gooseberry-bushes blue aprons, white ducks gad, they must be young Pendennis's white ducks nobody else wears 'em in the family. Rather a shy place for a sucking county member, ay, Pynsent?" "Snug little crib," said Mr. Pynsent, "pretty cosy little lawn." "Mr. Pendennis at home, old gentleman?" Mr.
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