eye now mr now mr i must beg of you � calm yourself what would my guests think if they found you in tears what would they think i had been saying to reduce you to such a condition it is very unfortunate that sally and should act as they do particularly at my place but really you must not give way since the death of their poor mother i am all alone my position is a very trying one then with a sudden burst of laughter however i suppose it will be all the same a hundred years hence x the girls walked to the station with the green was bright in the sunset and the grass was strangely green and sweet and the strangely white it was a evening with the clouds all growing pale towards the sea and the sun was like fire in the elms and the woods showed upon a purple tinge how delightful exclaimed frank the moonlight used to move me more but now the sunset is to me always a source of emotion there is generally a subtle in the sunset that i never weary of that i feel as keenly to day as i did last year how charming this is � this old english green the horse pond at one end the various houses the inn the business the linen drying in that yard the smith and the i don t like that modern queen anne school house and i wish i could remove the dead level of the and see the sea the green is better from this side with the view of the downs � those lines waving against the sky where the grows and the sheep feed and to the road all the fields pale green and deep green but what game are those men playing � what game do you call that bat and trap i have passed the green twenty times before and i never really saw it till now it is charming � so thoroughly spring days english i should like to live here for a month � for two months how nice it would be to breakfast in the morning looking out on the green to see the and and all the children and all this english life how different from pump court i am sick of pump court � dirt and smoke a horrid servant stale eggs i suppose you can always get fresh eggs and new bread hero i would give anything to spend a month on the green well you can cried sally i wish you would and you could come and play with us every afternoon mrs has some rooms to let why it was only last week i heard she had not let her rooms this season and was most anxious to do so there s no use my coming here until i begin to write my novel i am painting now and i must see if i can get my picture finished for one of the autumn i knew you would find some excuse no i assure you but i can t do anything without a and i am not likely to find a on green i don t suppose mrs has a room large enough for a said but i don t see why you should not find a place where you could paint where not in that century house where the two old ladies are standing supposing i were to go and ask them if they would let me have their drawing room to paint in that is the only house on the green all the rest are cottages i suppose you are not very particular where you paint said you don t mind appearances i suppose i wonder if you could manage to fit up a farm building spring days there is the famous bam where charles the first hid himself i don t suppose the authorities would allow me to turn that into a no probably not but i think you might find a house that would do what nonsense said sally who began to grow jealous of her sister why is it nonsense i see no reason why frank should not come to some arrangement with the smith and turn his house into a which is the smith s house i ll tell you in a moment if it could be turned into a that house standing quite by itself in the comer of the green that tall narrow house with the bit of broken wall and the elder bushes yes i i could up a very nice out of that place indeed it looks quite picturesque amid its elder bushes there is the and there is the but i could not live there no you would live at mrs s and you could walk over every morning to the yes i could do that i prefer to live with my work there is nothing like walking from the breakfast table across the room to the of course you can find fault with anything nothing is perfect there goes the train cried sally no use in running now you have missed it how very provoking the next isn t till half past seven just an hour to wait spring days well said if you have missed the train we may as well go at once and ask mrs if she has let her rooms they walked towards a block of cottages � at one end the s arms at the other the business and the cottage that joined the business was remarkable for a bit of green and a wooden balcony now covered with virginia frank at once thought of new laid eggs and the sunlight glancing through a great mass of and he resolved if a sacrifice were necessary to live at that he would put his picture aside and begin his novel the people in the house pleased him and he 