The utmost care could not always secure the most valuable fruits.

The pinery had yielded only one hundred in the last year.

Mr.Allen, he supposed, must feel these inconveniences as well as himself." "No, not at all.

Mr.Allen did not care about the garden, and never went into it." With a triumphant smile of self-satisfaction, the general wished he could do the same, for he never entered his, without being vexed in some way or other, by its falling short of his plan.
"How were Mr.Allen's succession-houses worked ?" describing the nature of his own as they entered them.
"Mr.Allen had only one small hot-house, which Mrs.Allen had the use of for her plants in winter, and there was a fire in it now and then." "He is a happy man!" said the general, with a look of very happy contempt.
Having taken her into every division, and led her under every wall, till she was heartily weary of seeing and wondering, he suffered the girls at last to seize the advantage of an outer door, and then expressing his wish to examine the effect of some recent alterations about the tea-house, proposed it as no unpleasant extension of their walk, if Miss Morland were not tired.

"But where are you going, Eleanor?
Why do you choose that cold, damp path to it?
Miss Morland will get wet.