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110 ADVENTURES OF YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENT...
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* W • With: Tliat Natural Clieerfulness ...
much hel p the lace ped private severer them , " thoug . affairs Worse ht I of , I with remembered still all ray calm , there particular resi was gnation the pocket a friends bundle ; when -book . of , " with which letters Well a , revealed sudden it _revealing can ' t and all be pang
my private affairs . , " They must be found , " I mentally ejaculated , and " of at " King that the 's moment " Id Virg lls inians caug " a ; ht " " Saturday si farther ght of on the Re g view yellow leamed " fluttered cover the green of the in back the last number breeze of the ;
y ; our " Bradshaw " lay securely under a furze bush ; Mrs . Jameson ' s "" Sisters of Charity" were nestling under a tuft of fern ; letters and
pocket-book were all safe , and I ran back joyfully to A ., who eviwas dentl not y wished half done they had We not drew been near discovered Strandsand so soon looking , as her at the drawing barn
which had been the . scene of our festivity , A , . asked my opinion as to the effect of such balls on the minds of these country children .
" Effect ! well I think it amused them very much , " said I . " Amused them ! " returned she , contemptuously ; " yes , but is it a
"health Exercise y kind of is health amusement " said ? " I" surel . " yy
" Of course" she went , on" , I know that ; but those very smart ,, dresses " It amused , and the me being " interrupted made such I a _" show I should of , and like the to excitement go to another , — . " "
,, her and But remarks healthy A . calml in p y leasures went an article on , as till for to I the moral ventured " Eng effect lish to , suggest and Woman rational she ' s Journal should entertainment . " embod Not y _^ , enlihten
these ment oh Public , profound but ! rather I grieve remarks by to a say conviction would , prompted be optional that by in a , which that desire case at for present my your recep it tion clearl g of y _^
was not . We made a halt at Strands , during which our luggage was filledand into
the placed remaining in a small portion car , four of - which fifths of we which squeezed it comp ourselves letely . Brid , where
A long breezy delicious drive brought us to Calder ge , — we were and to dine bacon , and ! It where was our the fate servant ; what at the could inn we placed say ? before It is us in
eggs vain devoured to strugg our meal le against in solemn an aveng resignation ing and , and relentless started destiny to visit , Calder so we
the Abbey banks , Whether of a winding it was river the , or bri the ght contrast day , or to the the pretty fearfull approach y hideous by the
modern residence beside it , I do not know , but we both pronounced ruin one of the _most beautiful we had ever seen . There was ho skilfulldone
not attempt to be at apparent keeping ; it the up , ivy or if traile there d was and , it the was ferns so waved y over the as and win
suffice red dow and against to crumbling bury the all clear walls in blue hopeless , and sk the y destruction looked delicate as tracery if nay the first of almost arch storm as would if the r
fluttering wings of the pigeons , who were flying , from , side to side , might
break away those slight fragments of ornament which capricious
110 Adventures Of Your Own Correspondent...
110 ADVENTURES OF YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/38/
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