I love tulips; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth look like a wholsesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli

The We're Here! gang is posting inordinately long titles today.

 

This one is from the novel Elizabeth and Her German Garden, by Elizabeth von Arnim.

 

Haha, it was so long, it cut off the last word. I had to edit the first line in order to get "patchouli" to fit. The actual quote starts off "I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment..."

 

Done