The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing

Author:George Gissing
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: George Gissing, Henry Ryecroft, satire, humour, British, materialism, consumerism, conformity, middle-class, lost generation, society
Publisher: Sovereign Classic
Published: 2016-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

XXIV.

The honest fellow who comes to dig in my garden is puzzled to account for my peculiarities; I often catch a look of wondering speculation in his eye when it turns upon me. It is all because I will not let him lay out flower-beds in the usual way, and make the bit of ground in front of the house really neat and ornamental. At first he put it down to meanness, but he knows by now that that cannot be the explanation. That I really prefer a garden so poor and plain that every cottager would be ashamed of it, he cannot bring himself to believe, and of course I have long since given up trying to explain myself. The good man probably concludes that too many books and the habit of solitude have somewhat affected what he would call my “reasons.”

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