Not a cabbage-head or a pea-plant is to be seen.

Not one strawberry or raspberry, no golden apricots on the wall or a single little dainty peach.

The disorder everywhere is frightful.

When I think how wonderfully it used to be managed by the Baroness!" Apollonie kept on wiping her eyes because present conditions worried her dreadfully.

"You can't understand it, Maezli," she continued, when she had calmed down a trifle.