laurel-gatherers

Updated: November 2, 2024

"Thank Heaven," observed I to my companion, as we passed to another part of the hall, "we have done with this techy, wayward, shy, proud unreasonable set of laurel-gatherers. I love them in their works, but have little desire to meet them elsewhere."

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")