Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

Billy slung the blankets from his shoulder to the ground, but
elected to wait. As Saxon went up the narrow, flower-bordered
walk, she noted two men at work among the vegetables--one an old
Chinese, the other old and of some dark-eyed foreign breed. Here
were neatness, efficiency, and intensive cultivation with a
vengeance--even her untrained eye could see that. The woman stood
up and turned from her flowers, and Saxon saw that she was
middle-aged, slender, and simply but nicely dressed. She wore
glasses, and Saxon's reading of her face was that it was kind but
nervous looking.