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114 ADVENTURES OF YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENT...
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* W • With: Tliat Natural Clieerfulness ...
ceroni our and particular at throug other t h imes friends future bu , i autumns ldin to whom g cas . tles we Can in were the to a imag ir serve by ine peop as our ling intelli disgust it gen with when t ci all
you a troop of ladies leran in ing crinoline from , screamin gentlemen babie with s pocket up to telescopes schoolboys , and of
faintl young sixteen y , peop , but were we , seen knew g passing the reverse by . our The river g swimming ? " Tourists must be , " stopped we said ,
the painting must go on in nervous expectation that any bush and can any not momen _, ima t g ine ght our reveal feelings a pry , w in hen g spectator two days . later Can , you on , our but no ! return you
home , we discovered our table spread with ; visiting cards We sank down in a state of prostrate agony which , was beyond speech . " Depend it" said A . " they have read your pamphlet on
the ' Influence upon of the , Ancient Celts , upon the early Greek Drama . ' " " I wish I had never written it" said I" yetno—that would be
a selfish feeling , posterity must be , considered , . , However , I think it far more likelthey have heard of your great picture of the '
Meeting of Vortigern y and Attila upon Mount Atlas / " A . modestly repulsed this idea . But no , in either of these cases
vanity one whom migh t have had considered sustained us such ; it was till no infin w itel had y armed worse . these A friend —well , or _,,
, let me be moderate—these individuals with a letter of introduction . We watched them out and called . We found the daughters would
like to sketch with us , to read with , us ; would like it ! I should say would do itand with an air of smiling urbanity , as if it were a
, mutual benefit . Now , for fear you should think your O . Cs . quite too savage in
their tendencies , I will tell you that kind and neighbourly offices were not wanting to usfor a mile or two off were friends who
provided our table with delicacies , , and our minds with new books , both of which we gratefully accepted . This in a parenthesis .
A few words are all I need to add . Two days ago a note was p one dinner laced another at in half my with -past han stead seven ds ; it o melanchol ' clock ques . ted I y handed t . I honor rose it . to A I . broug ; we com lo ht p oked an down y at to
Eradshaw ; we bewildered y our brains for a short time over that trunks enigma are , then packed guessed . To at that a train real ; solitude and at thi of s London moment not your the O . chi Cs - .
, merical solitude of the country , we are about to hasten in the first instance , and a civilly worded note is on its way to the Grange ,
affirming that " our return to London will prevent our having the honor , etc . "
A . A . P .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 114, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/42/
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