Essays in buff.

Date:
1903
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Essays in buff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the boughs a very unexpected sight. The river, overshadowed by willow trees and branching shrubs, came towards her from the left below the wood. Upon the right it opened out into a bright expanse of water above the neighbouring weir. Between the bushes and the river (it was but a narrow stream) lay a strip of soft green turf, and beyond the water a wide meadow now put up for hay, an ocean of translucent emerald interspersed with the gold of innumerable buttercups, and bounded in the distance by a lofty hedge overtopped with elms which stood out rich and dark against the summer sky. The quiet beauty and seclusion of the spot, the glowing atmosphere of the June day, were enhanced and animated by the presence in the foreground of the naked figures of the young men whom Miss Whitworth had last seen at the