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342 OUB ADVENTURE IN THE HIGHLANDS.
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And Our The Regiment Season Was Was Stat...
It wasas Harry said , " like a furnace ;' and feeling the lieat insupportable _, , I stept through an open window and
descended the steps to the lawn . A crowded quadrille having just been formed within , I had it all to myself without , and
moonli most deli ht g . htful Parallel were the with fresh the ni lawn ght breeze but separated and the from calm it bri by ght a thick screen g of laurel bushesran a , private walkwhich led to
a boat-house . Into that walk , I strolled , and on , reaching the poetical river side ) , to I admire could not the hel silvery p standing water shimmering still ( althoug in h the I am moon not
wandered beams , and among to listen the to droop the ing low branches , gurgling- of sound the trees it made on as the it
brink . ear I had and not turning stood 6 I long saw when Charlie the and sound Annie of footsteps coining caug down ht the my
walk , . , " How confoundedly awkward ! " I mentally exclaimed ;
66 perhaps he is proposing at this very moment , and how in the world am I to get out of the way ? "
Standing under the shadow of a tree , I was invisible for the time being ; but how to escape was the question : the walk was
and a cul- meet de-sac the _, and lovers I had was reached out of its the termination question , and ; to walk to remain back
moment where I was I sprung was equall into y the so laurel ; so , acting thicket on and the concealed impulse myself of the
there . , I had thought that , on reaching the end of the walk , Charlie
mi and ht Annie mak would e turn and . But retrace no !— their on coming steps , and to the that brink then of I
the g riverthey my stood escape still as I had done , looking silently at the scene of , beauty before them . Of course my position was a
most awkward one ; but I earnestly appeal to impartial judges , what was a fellow to do under the circumstances ?—whether
was it better to do violence to my own feelings so far as to act unwillinglthe part of eavesdropperor to shew myself at once
y , , seriousl thereby y causing marring two their young happiness peop ? le I to chose blush the , ' and former perhap , and s
remained squeezed among the laurel bushes _^ scarcely daring to The breath moon e , and shone most down fervently wishing them with the almost pair would the bri go htness away .
of day , and I could see upon that Annie had a pensive look g on her looked sweet face at- , them while a sli Charlie ht rustling ' s countenance sound near was me beaming attracted . As my I
g attention ; but so intent was I on remaining quiet and unperceived , that I paid no attention to it . Presently Annie drew a
a long time " So sig of I h have , anxiety and got Charlie it you was to said for promise gail me y before , at last you ; would but oh do , A it pnie ! " _, what
342 Oub Adventure In The Highlands.
342 OUB ADVENTURE IN THE HIGHLANDS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/54/
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