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192 THE KECOEDOF A VANISHED LIFE.
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I Went Abroad. All The Fairest Scenes Of...
which Entering the the houses chief were street clustered , or rather most heart thickl of I the passed village slowl , ii
by the tall , old-fashioned iron railings of the y , stately mansion _y of our Lords of the ManorI passed hy the innwith .- it *
horsetrough and signpost , and ; great , spectral , blasted , oak . There were no loungers before the inn door . I passed by the
the old few world and , bow more windowed modern , or red latticed brick windowed houses ; b cottages y the emptj ; h ? y
shops , dim within ; by the yard of the carpenter ; hy the of schoolhouse its proprietor , with , the its Her large . Mr brass . Wakley plate . , blazoned From the with sch the oolhouse name
and playground came no hum of boyish life or play ; but from the the came ear workshop a low The , monotonous of village the carpen seemed knocking ter— otherwis who sound was e quite also , striking an deserted undertaker heavil . I y did — on
. not meet a human being- ; I did not see a fowl or a dog . I fancied that the mist had hushed all life into its folds ; had
in and stifled its stirre and folds d in . covere the The little d up fog old the g village loomed living . - roun All things things d which my were thoug usuall enshrouded hts y , dwelt and thicker
flitted onl descended as I passed living across with thing slowl my a y vagu remaining brain along e awe that on upon my in I was that lonel my left village y fancies path in , utter . of and the It a grew _solitude dreary dead . , idea M the y
skirts cottage y of , as the I have lace , . I think I was , alre near ady the recorded end of , the was village in the out just
passing before some the small low p , houses white palings A few which yellow en flowers closed shone the throug gardens , h
. Deadened the rime and with softened a flaunting as it and was , disturbing their gay colour ] hue seemed _g-lare .
fancies unnatural strolled which on , in musing reflected that soundless and nature rolling ' , s mournful si over ghtless in my garb gloom mind , I . thoug the As cheerless ht I I thus saw towards
with a It sin was g a le quick a figure woman li emerg ht ; sli s ing tep ght from , which and the apparentl was fog , yet and y indecisive young coming . She and w irreso . alked me - .
, g , human lute . She being loom came whose nearer presence ; ht I looked restored knew with the the interest idea of at life the of to one the the
fi dull , grey I g fancied . I I thoug recognized I the dark p clo hysiognomy ak and the veil droop gure ing ; from the lain little straw bonnetShe came close
p . , hurry without ing having past in noticed a sort of me aimless . It was haste Miss , which Ashley seemed but . thefe " SJie vnot was to
take something voice manner : note she , th of had at so I anything strange evidentl stopped in . not to the The speak seen absorbed veil me to was . her , preoccup She down . She did , ied not started , disordered answer at was my at y
192 The Kecoedof A Vanished Life.
192 THE KECOEDOF A VANISHED LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/48/
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