Sublime

Life flourished everywhere, pale shoots springing from the carpet of decayed leaves at the foot of fissured oaks and cedar, stands of bluebells glowing in a darker part of the forest. Red grasshoppers vaulted through meadows filled with wild primrose and lady’s-smock, while translucent blue damselflies hovered over the intricately cut white petals

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. Mr. Allen, who owned the chief53 of the property about Fullerton, the village in Wiltshire where the Morlands lived,54 was ordered to Bath for the benefit of a gouty constitution;55—

verdant,

If spring is a lesson in minimalism, then summer is the season of excess.