The final sentence sums up the scene and states the impression directly, as to the modifiers neatly, clean, gay, but on the whole the images create the sense of middle-class fulfillment. Any ugliness is excluded. If the lawn were disfigured by crabgrass, if weeds leered among the flowers, the facts are discreetly omitted. Very different are the details—and the impression—in this account of the homes of miners in the north of England: no hope of describing them adequately. To begin with, the smel