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The charm of gardens (1910)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. & C. Black · leaf 229

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f amazingdances and games. In the Winter one last beauty comes. The day hasbeen leaden, sad-coloured, bitterly cold. All the cab-men on the rank stamp with their feet, and swing theirarms to keep themselves warm, and there is a littlemist where all the horses breathe. And people comingthrough the… … THE EFFECT OF TREES comes; the sky is darker; the trees stick up lookingblack, like drawings in pen and ink. Flakes, whiteflakes, twenty, forty, then a rush—a thousand; the skyfull of tiny white flakes, the air full of them whirlingdown. All sounds begin to be muffled. Horses hoofsbeat with a thud…

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