Kew Gardens Quotes

The man kept this distance in front of the woman purposely, though perhaps unconsciously, for he wished to go on with his thoughts. (2)

The man was about six inches in front of the woman, strolling carelessly, while she bore on with greater purpose, only turning her head now and then to see that the children were not too far behind...

The figures of these men and women straggled past the flower-bed with a curiously irregular movement not unlike that of the white and blue butterflies who crossed the turf in zig-zag flights from b...

"Fifteen years ago I came here with Lily," he thought. "We sat somewhere over there by a lake and I beggared her to marry me all through the hot afternoon." (3)

Here he [the old man] seemed to have caught sight of a woman's dress in the distance, which in the shade look a purple black. He took off his hat, placed his hand upon his heart, and hurried toward...

From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves half way up and unfurling at the tip red or blue or yellow petals marked with...

"Fifteen years ago I came here with Lily," he thought. (3)

"Heaven was known to the ancients as Thessaly, William, and now, with this war, the spirit matter is rolling between the hills like thunder." (12)

"Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the treesâ...