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ADVENTURES O3? YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS, ...
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* W • With: Tliat Natural Clieerfulness ...
_eluded is our position , tliat no tourist , we flatter ourselves 3 would ever discover our abodeOur rooms are airy and pleasantand we
. , have so far learned by experience , as from the very commencement , to t with deliht the conventional facts of sofas and arm-chairs
and accep such like sophistic g ated comforts ; and the kind and hospitable in which we have been " looked after" with more attention
way than lodgers could expect , but not more than your slightly unpractical O . Cs . need , has been a charming relief , after the gloomy and
unwilling attendance rendered us at " lovely , lonely" Wastdale Head . Shade and trees and verdure we have in abundance , and yet
by mounting a few yards behind our house , we see the two lakes outspread before usand thither every evening does A . repair for
the sunset lights which , flood Lowes Water , and are cast back by the _eastern clouds and the reddening hills that rise up one behind another
far away to our right , always the same , and yet never alike , colors and shadows and vapours hourly changing their aspect .
I do believe that the sea and the mountains appeal so much more strongly to our heart than any other form of scenery , just because
they share our human power of changing their mood ; and so we can draw out of the voice of the sea or the mists of the hills , a teaching
and a sympathy , as true , as tender , as divine , as any human heart could ive usand at times when perhaps even the most loving
voice or g look would , but jar upon our aching nerves . But you will say , You are describing an Elysium : what
propitiatory offering have you made to the Nemesis which grudges perfect bliss to mortals ? Be satisfiedyour O . Cs . had their King of
, Polycrates . They were with us . I say they , not from any ungrammatical carelessness , but because it is the only word we use
to designate them . ct _" Are They they have coming driven do me you in think ! " says ? " we A ., ask when often she in returns blank horror home .
before her time . No Orestes ever shrank before the approach of his shadowy
avengers in more abject terror than we do before them . " They are awful to-day ! " was A . ' s observation yesterdayand
, one in which I cordially agreed , after inspecting the fifty-two stings , reddening and inflaming , which these diabolical Midges—for who
Your could G they . Gs be . , have except been these known universal again torments and again ?—had franticall inflicted y to on rush her . _,
down a declivity , and at the imminent peril of their lives lie on a sloping bank and dip their heads into the lake . But in vain ; I
tlms think cooled they returned and refreshed with for double them relish * But after language their fails meal me had , and been I
pause One . point I have till now intentionally passed over . There was
a large vacant house a quarter of a mile from us , about which we
crimes often speculated , and therefore : now appropriatel imagining it y _fUling have 1 it been with present scene g hosts past $
Adventures O3? Your Own Correspondents, ...
ADVENTURES O 3 ? YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS , 118
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/41/
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