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The leaves were heart-shaped and frosty, whitish-green, resembling felt. The Harvester bent to offer them. "Have some Grass of Parnassus, my dear," he said. The Girl waved them away. "Go stand over there by the door and slowly turn around. I want to see you." The Harvester obeyed. He was freshly and carefully shaven.
Between the old apple-trees and gooseberry bushes were rows of curly whitish-green cabbages; the hop twined its tendrils round high poles; there were thick ranks of brown twigs tangled over with dried peas; large flat pumpkins seemed rolling on the ground; cucumbers showed yellow under their dusty angular leaves; tall nettles were waving along the hedge; in two or three places grew clumps of tartar honeysuckle, elder, and wild rose the remnants of former flower-beds.
The chestnuts showed brown glistening tips to their branch-ends, and their black trunks became covered with an emerald-colored mildew; the rod-like branches of the poplars turned a pale whitish-green and began to knot and swell; the Water of Leith overflowed, and ran bubbling and mud-colored under the bridge; and the grass by its banks, and even that in the front green of the refuge, showed here and there a red-eyed daisy.
No hedge shows here the limits of possession. Among the crossing tracks of carriage wheels must thou seek thy way. Crippled oaks, with whitish-green moss overgrown to the outermost branches, twist themselves along the ground, as if fearing storms and the sea-mist.
It was heaped with great yellow peaches, each with a crimson cheek, while, flung carelessly among them, were clusters of grapes in their perfection, purple-blue and whitish-green, promising rare sweetness and flavor. "They were the best I could find, but scarcely good enough for you," he remarked deprecatingly, as he placed the basket in her hand. "Oh, beautiful! What delicious fruit!
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