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104 ADVENTURES OF YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENT...
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* W • With: Tliat Natural Clieerfulness ...
made t a o youth carry a dail , of A . _' y twelve s painting point , of wlio 1 howling um was brella with " the and some whole easel difficult way about , till y caug A a . hun dismissed ht dred and bribed yards him , ,
coaxing and preferred 1 on this carry reluctant ing" her , and apparatus disobliging herself 1 Ganymede , to either . Let driving us pass 1 or
over the first four days , and draw up the curtain , discovering your O . Cs . seated at dinner .
Scene . The small parlor , —for tourists have arrived and taken possession of the kitchen . Steadily pouring rain is heard against
the casement . A table , spread with eggs and bacon . Dead silence , This broken latter by an particular occasional stiff astonish and civil you observation — -butoh from , civilised one or reader other . !
our little parlor's one may door led into the kitchen , where dwelt our tourists , and this door closed so imperfectly , as to give us the benefit
of their conversation , and to carry to tnem in like manner every word we said . Our talk therefore was divided between
meteoroloand gical with , or political that peculi , or ar literary theatrical remarks manner uttered which in always an audible accompanies tone ,
one ' s consciousness of an unseen audience ;—and vivid pantomimic expressions "T' moil ' s of coom our real bock feeling again _-s . and there's naw letters for you , "
, said Thi Mrs s had . Bitson been , coming the one * in speck to take of away possible our entertainment meal . , which
had of our promised uncertain to g wanderings leam upon , our had day reached . ourselves No us letters since to , in the we consequence melanchol left town ; and this hophad failedwe up y
now e , gave of our situation . . Rain , gloom , enforced silence—this last is a special hardship to your O . Cs . —what was to be done ?
"I will read out Cymbeline , " said A ., and she began . " How very fine that is ! " yawned there I , must at the be expiration mistake of half about an
hour those , letters " but I ; " have and been again thinking we went over the old some supposition of possible contingencies , which , all ingeniously assembled together , as we
knew they could not have been , left the non-arrival of letters a natural " G-o on and with perfectl Cymbeline y simple , " occurrence said I , languidl . y , and on went A ., till
she got as far as Iachimo's confession—And Which " here Take I so the often that bracelet life owe , b : of eseech but the your truest you ring , princess first ,
That ever swore her faith . " # * * Here she suddenly ,
"—like a man Dashed Whom wrongs the book _haye down armed and wi began th vengeance —" ,
" One Irrelevant cannot go as on this living observation on eggs and mi bacon ht /" to the reward of appear
Imogen ' s patient fidelity , or Posthumous g ' s very undeserved happiness ,
104 Adventures Of Your Own Correspondent...
104 ADVENTURES OF YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/32/
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