Emily's Quest (1927)
“Emily, in the warm amber of the afternoon, stood on the sandstone front steps of New Moon and looked about her with eyes avid for the mellow loveliness of the fading year. Most of the trees were leafless, but a little birch, still in golden array, peeped out of the young spruces – a birch Danaë in their shadows – and the Lombardies down the lane were like a row of great golden candles. Beyond was the sere hill field scarfed with three bright red ribbons – the “ridges” Cousin Jimmy had ploughed.... Emily had been writing all day and she was tired. She went down the garden to the little vine-hung summer house – she poked dreamily about; deciding where the new tulip bulbs should be planted. Here – in this moist rich soil where Cousin Jimmy had recently pried out the mouldering old sidesteps. Next spring it should be a banquet board laden with stately chalices. Emily’s heel sank deeply into the moist earth and came out laden. She sauntered over to the stone bench and daintily scraped off the earth with a twig.MoreLess
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