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Updated: May 16, 2025
He dismissed them with many compliments by the high Lodge-gate in the split-oak park palings and they stood still; even Stalky, who had played second, not to say a dumb, fiddle, regarding McTurk as one from another world.
He could draw countless little vignettes of his experiences and emotions the particular sensation elicited, for example, by seeing through iron gates happy people on a lawn at tea the white china, the silver, the dresses, the flannels, the lawn-tennis net as he went past, with string tied below his knees to keep off the drag of the trousers, and a sore heel; the emotion of being passed by a boy and a girl on horseback; the flood of indescribable associations roused by walking for half a day past the split-oak paling of a great park, with lodge-gates here and there, the cooing of wood-pigeons, and the big house, among its lawns and cedars and geranium-beds, seen now and then, far off in the midst.
"How d'ye, miss?" said Aunt Patsy, in a thin but quite firm voice, while the young woman got up and brought Mrs Null a chair, very short in the legs, very high in the back, and with its split-oak bottom very much sunken. "How are you feeling to-day, Aunt Patsy?" asked Mrs Null, gazing with much interest on the aged face. "'Bout as common," replied the old woman.
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