[{"node":{"title":"Hanna125","Collections":"Part Two","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1951","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, April 7, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hanna125","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Autumn, Childhood","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hanna125","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Hanna125_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff119\n\nChapter Seven\n\nMr Sorleyson was lifting his potatoes, too. He had had a few\ndrills planted and was working among thorn now, gathering sufficient\nfor dinner in a little shopping-basket. He had never been quite happy\nabout this potato-patch. In the lawn beside it grew clove-lilies,\nmignonette, sweat-william and verbena, and these, in their turn,\ncarried on a scented pageantry from spring till Autumn. To his city\nmind there was something peculiarly distasteful in this proximity of\nflowers to vegetables. In the Spring the knifesharp symmetrica] drills\nseemed uncouth beside the delicate blossoms, and even in the Summer\nwhen the dark heavy leaves of the vegetable hid the soil, they remained,\nblatantly, potato leaves.\n\nHe had often walked through his neighbours\u2019 gardens. None was so\nwell kept nor so neat as the Manse garden, There he saw dog-roses\ngrowing among beans and carnations stretching their indolent silver\nstems over shive-beds. on the whole, he had to admit, there was a\npleasing harmony in these gardens. Adn without being quite able to\nexplain why, Mr Sorleyson felt a strong aversion to this mingling of\nthe orderly with the arbitary. Perhaps it was because it ran counter\nto the attitude to which ho clung so strenously. Perhaps it was\nbecause it resembled too closely the lives of many of his congregation.\nHe had discovered that these men and women who, from childhood, had\nbeen taught to esteem righteousness, could, without any fueling of\n","Type":"Text"}}]