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ADVENTURES OF YOTJR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. ...
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in This divesting being 1 ourselves our first day of our of reall town y settled Habilim rural ents life , and , we app lost earing no time in
that " You simp do le and look rustic absurd costume ! " was we our had mutual so carefull assurance y devised . But . here I
must aim or premise other for and your thoug enli h g he htenment or she ; may that not , as choose every one to confess has som it e ,
, their duce the ways one , and desired words effect , and so dress had , and we our demeanor aim , adopted , all tend pro to pro tern - , ;
and while others wish to appear interesting , or amiable , or refined , diculous or fascinating . We , our considered aim throug it would hout be our far holiday the leasantest has been to and be— most rip
tural attainable vanity object deluded in our us p , ower it was ; and one , unless for wh our ich friends we had and a sin our without gular
naeffort natural and aptitude unconsciousl , so much so to , as ourselves to attain . it Deliberatel occasionall y y striving quite for it then , , .. what extreme might y we not hope to another reach ? have been what to
other Thus ears our mi hig ht hest have comp sounded liments as to one leasant and uncivil truths , and the caricatures g which we have despatched unp to our families and friends
have her absurdity been generall had y not accompanied been done by justic assurances e to . from I would the victim venture that to and
suggest do so with this less plan diffidence of ours to as all tourists late experience and holiday quite seekers strengthen , I s
me in the belief that their , success my would be far more signal than in striving to produce the impressions they now aim at , in -which they
certainl We had y do had not succeed lovelweather . so we could not complain when a
Wastdale leaden greyness Head look covered even y on the brig , sk ht y . days Solemn , and most and extremel melanchol y g y loomy does
is it in dull dark weather . "If we were not naturally jolly , " said A ., " this would be deis not
pressing tudied or . " correct ( You will as in observe their Lond that on your life . O ) . Cs We . ' phraseology gradually began to so
s confess that there were drawbacks . " But nothing is perfect , " said wewhich truism did not mend matters . Your O . Cs . always like
to see , the sun set ; occasionally they like to see it rise ; but at Wastt dale ains Head the sun you did can not do neither over . Close them shut till late in by in a the screen day of and moun dis-
appear , was appeared but one earl , — y was in the so evening stony , that . Then by the the time paths we , reached or path , the —for lake there , A , contented herself
peop with was le half beg , we latae inning had , and begun a p quite icture to see too of , tired were the to far Sty paint head too reserved , Pass so she . vain , The not had to Cumberland say surl alter y ,
nately to respond exerted to any all those of our powers friendly of advances fascinating . In urbanity and we cheerful - amiability for which your 0 . Cs . are so remarkable . at Not even Brockle from
bank the little ' s ball girl could who we had extract been anything one of the but performers monosyllabic Mr rep . lies ; _ancl - ,
Adventures Of Yotjr Own Correspondents. ...
ADVENTURES OF YOTJR OWN CORRESPONDENTS . 103
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/31/
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