Hall and cottage - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...skilful with her pencil, she muttered to herself, "I will sketch that scene on my next visit." "Dear lady," said Walter, "may I ask one favour before we part, and that is, that you will kindly give me a copy also; I hope I am not asking too much." "You shall have one Mr. Mounsden, I will give you one with pleasure, and am grateful to you for asking anything at my hands for the service of today." "Farewell, sir, farewell," and the lady with Springer, turned towards Duncorn Hall, and Walter made for Pebblestone. A DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE. On sounding pinions here the youth withdrew, The sage stood wondering as the seraph flew.--Dk. Paensil THE pleasure which the lovers realised from time to time in their delightful interviews in the shady dell, may be more easily imagined than expressed. Pleasure, probably more than any other sensation, is apt to throw us off our guard, and in the enjoyment we are apt to neglect those precautions ever necessary for its continuance. The plans of youth are often flimsily constructed and, like gossamer webs, easily riven in fragments and destroyed. But what can be expected of youth unacquainted with the subtilties of life, and which, in the rage of its impulses, can seldom see the difference between the point of a spear and the dart of a sunbeam. Whenever Mabel met Lord Charles in the shady dell, she was so transported with the gushing of his enraptured soul, that she remembered nothing else but the flow of his loving words. The dismal subterraneous passage, answering in horrible echoes to the tread of her tiny feet, was passed through without a quail, or even the slightest sense of fear. The sombre trees were hailed as familiar friends, and they threaded them with delight, when in...