This done, she returns to the garden, and approaches the mysterious figure on the
lawn.
On the other side of the
lawn, facing the targets, was pitched a real tent, with benches and garden-seats about it.
McGregor emptied out a sackful of
lawn mowings right upon the top of the sleeping Flopsy Bunnies!
Outside the summer-house, seen through three arched openings, the cool green prospect of a
lawn led away, in the distance, to flower-beds and shrubberies, and, farther still, disclosed, through a break in the trees, a grand stone house which closed the view, with a fountain in front of it playing in the sun.
On either side stretched
lawns, their broad sweep broken here and there by great sturdy-limbed oaks.
The left-hand scene presented the view of a very fine park, composed of very unequal ground, and agreeably varied with all the diversity that hills,
lawns, wood, and water, laid out with admirable taste, but owing less to art than to nature, could give.
It was all laid out into lovely
lawns and gardens, with pebble paths leading through them and groves of beautiful and stately trees dotting the landscape here and there.
Westmacott were pacing up and down the
lawn, the lady waving her racket as she emphasized her remarks, and the Doctor listening with slanting head and little nods of agreement.
Miss Halcombe was standing with her hat in her hand, and her shawl over her arm, by the large window that led out to the
lawn, and was looking at me attentively.
A sudden thought struck him, however, and he ran through the hall door and round to the
lawn upon which the long French windows open.
No one could say just where they appeared upon the open
lawn on their way to the front door by which they entered, nor at exactly what point they vanished as they came out; or, rather, while each spectator was positive enough about these matters, no two agreed.
On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit
lawn. For, although the sun is lost to us forever, the moon, full- orbed or slender, remains to us.
There was an orchard behind it, and a nicely kept
lawn before it, but, somehow, there was a certain bareness about it.
Then she walked off the
lawn to the meadow, whose corner to the right I can just see.
The other glanced out upon the
lawn and rose to his feet.
