8/26 Show me any two things more opposite one from the other than a rose and a thief; and I'll correct my tastes accordingly--if it isn't too late at my time of life. You find the damask rose a goodish stock for most of the tender sorts, don't you, Mr.Gardener? Here's a lady coming. I began to think him rather a quicker man than he appeared to be at first sight. She was, for the first time in all my experience of her, at a loss what to say at an interview with a stranger. |