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valentine's eve in Norwich. 395
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- V "The Stranger Who Visits Norwich, Do...
go through crowds of purchasers and lines of temptation , detecting now and then elaboratelemblazoned envelopes sealed appropriately
with hearts and darts in y the hands of young people , all journeying towards a certain yawning chasmknown vulgarly as the post office .
Dear me ! what an overpowering , quantity of burning love does that gulf swallow on that particular day ! If it could only be
forwarded ( like patent fuel ) in moderate quantities over the country , how households miht have a comfortable warmwhere now
shiver many only discontent and g coldness ! But love , like money , , likes to accumulate on the same owner . We might see some pretty pictures
if we wandered into a few of the minor streets , but they are not quite so satisfactory in spite of the broader touches of enjoyment ;
and that not only because the means of the purchasers are inadequate to their generosity , but because one is vexed to see
what inferior articles are sold to the poor for as much money as the understand rich give for wh the same the owners thing fresh of , cheap and perfect shops , should and good make . I can fortunes quite
y rapidly , for they are certainly the dearest to the customer . It has struck fivedarkness is coming on—that darkness which
many a little heart is , desiring . One little girl of our own begged to have the shutters shut and the lamp lighted at three o _' clock ,
thinking to hasten the benevolent saint . By the way , the Prayerbook says St . Valentine was a bishop ; if so , he was a bishop who
would not be averse to a game of cricket or archery _, one may fancy We . will knock at good Mr . Bull ' s doorwhere the family are at
, tea—for on this day they dine at one o ' clock , that nothing may interfere with the evening ' s fun . What a charming growth of
olive branches surrounds Mr . Bull ' s mahogany ! There is Herbert the volunteerthe escort of the little lady we followed this morning ,
the too junior fast for head , his her and strength chief , " pride Mrs Then . of Bull the famil says Alice , y h . alf " and -anxious He has but shot not up
_^«^ -proud of first-born . come Minnie , that muffins rogue Tom are , onl the tasted grammar bthe school seniors boy ; excitement , and little has Frank deprived . The all
the apricot young marmalade folks y of their off y his appetites slice . of Little bread Frank ( a forbidden has eaten act all the of
_yourmandise _, ) and knows not what to do with , his bread ; he tries sllto ive it to Dashbut it still tastes of the departed
sweetmeat yy and g Dash will not , go in for sweets . Suddenly there is a rounds thundering , All knock the children , a deafening rush to peal the . door Valentine and there has on begun the step his ,
The elder stands address ones . a figure drag is read so it huge in , whilst It , that is a papa large the small and rocking mamm ones - , horse retreat a wink for in at Frank , dismay one another and ; the on _.
. , it he jumps , huzzaing , shouting for joy—knock , knock— " Miss Minnie Bull . " Some beautiful lines accompany the sparkling purse ,
but ere _tlie first verse is perused bang , bang * goes that knocker . p 3 ? 2
Valentine's Eve In Norwich. 395
valentine ' s eve in Norwich . 395
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/35/
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