This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... from the strait path to sketch tree or tower, at another halting to list the tales of others, with which haply, itself has no connexion. Does it not recall to your memory the recolleciion of your own early days? and is not the recollection sweet to your mind among the cares of mature life, as is the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... from the strait path to sketch tree or tower, at another halting to list the tales of others, with which haply, itself has no connexion. Does it not recall to your memory the recolleciion of your own early days? and is not the recollection sweet to your mind among the cares of mature life, as is the breath of a hay or clover field to one whirled along the cuts and tunnels of a railway? If I can persuade myself it has this effect upon you, the delight it has afforded to me will be increased tenfold, albeit, whilst the polar star shines upon the scenery of which it is descriptive, the rays of the southern cross fall upon the paper as I write. CHAPTER XIII. LEAH MERIEL. Something about half a century ago, the inhabitants of "The Thorn," a village on the borders of Wales, remarked the appearance among them of a mendicant, who had never before been observed to frequent that neighborhood. She was a woman, and bore with her a child, whose extreme squalor and unhealthiness of aspect attracted compassion to mingle with the disgust excited by her own filthy and debauched character and appearance. She was tall, thin, and pale. Her clothes were tattered and dirty to an extreme degree, and she was continually in a state of semi-intoxication. Her language, too, and general deportment, were of a most abandoned description, --indeed, such as would have ensured her being stoned out of any orderly place, instead of obtaining charity. But it was the child that was her bread-winner: the poor little thing was so tiny and delicate, so dirty, naked and skinny, and appeared by its looks to feel so acutely the wretchedness of its case, that pieces of copper money were plentifully thrown to them as. they sat by the hedge-side--for the road through the village was...
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