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The house was sixty years old, unsightly, comfortable; a farmyard and a kitchen-garden on the left, with a fruit wall where little hard green pears came to their maturity about the end of October. My lord had been led by the influence of Mr.
Barebone obeyed mechanically, leading the way through the bushes to the kitchen-garden and over an iron fencing on to the open marsh. This stretched inland for two miles without a hedge or other fence but the sunken dykes which intersected it across and across.
First of all he went the whole way round the walks, meeting nobody. Then he crossed the lawn, returning again to the farther end; and there, emerging from the little path which led from the Great House, he encountered Lily alone. "Oh, John," she said, "how d'ye do? I'm afraid you did not find anybody in the house. Mamma and Bell are with Hopkins, away in the large kitchen-garden."
When I think of it, I always want to see what's coming next, and so I always wait till next is over. Well! I suppose there's somebody happy somewheres. But it ain't in them carriages. Oh my! how they do look sometimes fit to bite your head off! Good-bye!" She ran up the hill and disappeared behind it. Then Diamond shut the door as he best could, and ran through the kitchen-garden to the stable.
All right, I see now," whispered Tom, and he stepped as far as he could across the flower-bed, which ran down beside the kitchen-garden, and the next minute felt the gardener's hand stretched out to take his. "Got your stick, sir?" "Yes; all right. He hasn't come then yet." "Not yet, sir. Here you are; now you can kneel down alongside o' me. Mustn't be no more talking."
In this manner the darlings of our childhood burnish out in the eye of after years, and derive their sweetest perfume from the first heartfelt sigh of pleasure breathed upon them, Like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! If I have pleasure in a flower-garden, I have in a kitchen-garden too, and for the same reason.
Indeed, their whole force would have been barely sufficient to cope with the convicts, and just now no one could leave Granite House. The engineer and Neb arrived on the plateau. Desolation reigned everywhere. The fields had been trampled over; the ears of wheat, which were nearly full-grown, lay on the ground. The other plantations had not suffered less. The kitchen-garden was destroyed.
Who's game to fly up the kitchen-garden?" "What? Now?" "Why not? We should only be gone a few minutes and Miss Hardy would never find out." "It really would be a frolicsome joke!" "There's a moon, too!" "I vote we risk it!" "Come along!"
The slight employment his garden gave him there was a kitchen-garden behind each house, as well as the flower-plot in front and the daily arrangement of his parlour and chamber were, at the beginning of his time of occupation, as much bodily labour as he could manage.
To enter my room and bolt the door behind us was a moment's work; and a few moments more took us into the alley of the kitchen-garden. With speedy, noiseless steps, we made our way to the park, and across it to the door in the fence, where Wood was waiting for us, old Constancy pawing the ground with impatience for a good run. He had had enough of it before twelve hours were over.
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