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* ' How far is it ? " we asked . " Wull , t' goide book says six and twenty moilebut I'd rayther
, droive forty moile o' good road . T' people don't go to Stronds , you see . They loikes Grossmere , and Lowood , and soch loike places . _"
" But we donot" said we" and we don't mind a bad road . " _^ ,, " Wull , I think t' rain ' s cooniin on , t' lightning ' s begginin _*
already . " " " Oh "We don , ' we t mind rather a storm like it , " " said said A I ., quaking coolly ; " inwardl we rather y . like it . "
,, Our luggage was put , not on a car as we had hoped , but on a regular open fly .
" What a pity , " said I , " and oh ! I wish I had a cushion . " A . arranged it as comfortably as she could , and , after the first ten
miles , said , " Perhaps it is as well we did not have an open car . " As I was half dead already I heartily acquiesced , and we then
agreed , that in their place and on a journey , comforts were not only desirable but necessary ; and that apropos to the subjectnot
, that we cared ,- ;—but we wondered where we should stop for tea . I said crinoline was my one weakness ; I liave anotherand that
, is tea , and it is the stronger weakness ( or , should I say , the weaker weakness ?) of the two .
By this time we were utterly tired of talking . I must inform you thatin spite of our love of solitude"we talked incessantly :
, , seventeen hours out of the twenty-four was our average ; but we meant to change all that when we were settled .
"I have brought ' Scenes of Clerical Life , ' " said A ., blushing , sho and _^ _ifjreproach _^ Tilling it out her with of her breaking carpet our bag compact , evidentl . y fearing that I
. _/ _fgfevery good idea , " said I . " By the way I have a few of Madame Reybaud ' s Stories with me . "
- "I am glad of it , " said A ., and we fell to reading . Up—up—dragged the poor horses , struggling and straining to
get on . Out jumped A . at last , and marched on with her umbrella up , and with an air of stern resolve .
_" I think I had better walk too , " said I , " on account of those poor horses . "
" Oh , that ' 11 make very little difference , " said the man , looking rather contemptuously at my probable weight . So , sometimes
getting out to save the horses from ourselves , and sometimes getting in to save ourselves from the rain , we went on and on .
_< " This is glorious , " said A . ; " look at the mists . " " Very glorious , " said I ; "do you think we shall ever get there ? "
" Here is an inn , " cried A ., " here we are . " " Is this Stronds ? " said our driver .
" Wull , " returned a woman , " I should think t' road to Stronds is a motter o' ten moile loike . "
Despair seized us . " Can we have tea here ? " said A . ; " because ,
_Jhen the poor dear . horses can rest . " Life returned to us when
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ADVENTURES OE YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS , 39
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/39/
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