[The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookThe Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn CHAPTER XXVII 4/41
It has opened since I was here." "Ah!" said Sam, "this is the one that came from the Quartz Ranges, last year; is it not? It has not flowered with you before." "If Linnaeus wept and prayed over the first piece of English furze which he saw," said the Doctor, "what everlasting smelling-bottle hysterics he would have gone into in this country! I don't sympathise with his tears much, though, myself; though a new flower is a source of the greatest pleasure to me." "And so you are going to Garoopna, Sam ?" said his father, at breakfast. "Have you heard, my dear, when the young lady is to come home ?" "Next month, I understand, my dear," said Mrs.Buckley.
"When she does come I shall go over and make her a visit." "What is her name, by-the-bye ?" asked the Doctor. "Alice!" So, behold Sam starting for his visit.
The very Brummel of bush-dandies.
Hunt might have made his well-fitting cord breeches, Hoby might have made those black top-boots, and Chifney might have worn them before royalty, and not been shamed.
It is too hot for coat or waistcoat; so he wears his snow-white shirt, topped by a blue "bird's-eye-handkerchief," and keeps his coat in his valise, to be used as occasion shall require.
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