In The Meantime My Other Pet, Mayflower, Had Also Gotten
Into A Scrape.
She had driven about a huge unwieldy sow,
till the animal's grunting had disturbed the repose of a
still more enormous Newfoundland dog, the guardian of the
yard.
The beautiful white greyhound's mocking treatment of the
surly dog on the chain then follows, and other pretty
scenes and adventures, until after some mishaps and much
trouble the cowslip ball is at length completed.
What a concentration of fragrance and beauty it was!
Golden and sweet to satiety! rich in sight, and touch, and
smell! Lizzie was enchanted, and ran off with her prize,
hiding amongst the trees in the very coyness of ecstasy, as
if any human eye, even mine, would be a restraint on her
innocent raptures.
Here the very woman is revealed to us, her tender and lively
disposition, her impulsiveness and childlike love of fun
and delight in everything on earth. We see in such a passage
what her merit really is, the reason of our liking or
"partiality" for her. Her pleasure in everything makes
everything interesting, and in displaying her feeling without
art or disguise she succeeds in giving what we may call a
literary expression to personal charm - that quality which is
almost untranslatable into written words. Many women possess
it; it is in them and issues from them, and is like an essential
oil in a flower, but too volatile to be captured and made use
of. Furthermore, women when they write are as a rule even more
conventional than men, more artificial and out of and away
from themselves.
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