...sea-breezes blew into the low end-window of the house laden with not only sweet-brier and s weet-mary, but balm and sage and borage and mint, wormwood and...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They...

...upon thyme, and made its fragrant presence known with all the rest. Being a very large person, hep full skirts brushed and bent almost every slender...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They...

...sweet-mary, but balm and sage and borage and mint, wormwood and southernwood. If Mrs. Todd had oo> oasion to step into the far corner of her herb plot, she...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They...

...pharmacopaeia, great treasures and rarities among the commoner herbs. There were some strange and potent odors that roused a dim sense and remembrance of something...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They...

...lodging-place, and that was its complete lack of seclusion. At first the tiny house of Mrs. Almira Todd, which stood with its end to the street, appeared...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They...

...and sage and borage and mint, wormwood, and southernwood" (p. 3), Almira works in her garden where there were some strange and pungent odors that roused...occult knowledge handed with them down the centuries. (P-4) This rhetoric is designed to reassure us that the past of "sacred and mystic rites" and "occult...

...self's distant past. Upon first discovering the woman's herbal garden, the guest observes that therein "were some strange and pungent odors that roused a...occult knowledge handed with them down the centuries" (4). One anxious about time, the narrator slyly adds that at work in the garden "Mrs. Todd trod heavily...

...that roused a dim sense and remembrance of something in the forgotTHE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS ten past. Some of these might once have belonged to sacred...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They...

...lodging-place, and that was its complete lack of seclusion. At first the tiny house of Mrs. Almira Todd, which stood with its end to the street, appeared...they pertained only to humble compounds brewed at intervals with molasses or vinegar or spirits in a small caldron on Mrs. Todd's kitchen stove. They...

...narrator describes her hostess's herb garden in mythic terms: Its "strange and pungent odors . . . roused a dim sense and remembrance of something in...occult knowledge handed with them down the centuries ..." (3—4). Mrs. Todd's herbal practice thus connects the present world with an ancient past and...