1 Quotes by Elisabeth Von Arnim

The labour of diggingand watering, the anxious zeal with which Ipounced on weeds, the poring over gardeningbooks, the plans made as I sat on the little seatin the middle gazing admiringly and with theeye of faith on the trim surface so soon to begemmed with a thousand flowers, the recklessexpenditure of pfennings^ the humiliation of myposition in regard to Fraulein Wundermacher,all, all had been in vain.