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Daisy was absorbed in a rather ambitious attempt to sketch the lake from the open windows of Applethwaite Cottage, and did not look up from her drawing immediately. When she did speak her reply might perhaps have been more sympathetic. 'He eats such a lot, auntie! she said. 'Yes, Don, we are talking about you. You know you eat too much, and that's the reason you're so disgracefully fat!
"And so do I," said Henry, coming to her aid. "Ah, YOU," said Grace, a little saucily. "We do not accept you for our pattern, you see. Pray excuse our bad taste, Harry." "Oh, excuse ME, Mrs. Little. In some things I should indeed be proud if I could imitate him; but in others of course you know!" "Yes, I know. My dear, there is your friend Mr. Applethwaite." "I see him," said Henry, carelessly.
Women have often been hardly used by men, but perhaps no harder usage, no fiercer cruelty was ever experienced by a woman than that which fell to the lot of Josephine Murray from the hands of Earl Lovel, to whom she was married in the parish church of Applethwaite, a parish without a village, lying among the mountains of Cumberland, on the 1st of June, 181 . That her marriage was valid according to all the forms of the Church, if Lord Lovel were then capable of marrying, no one ever doubted; nor did the Earl ever allege that it was not so.
That an Italian lady had been married to the old lord now twenty-five years ago, he did believe, probably the younger sister of this woman, and he also believed that this wife had been dead before the marriage at Applethwaite. That was his private opinion. Mr.
He understood that the English Countess would stand her ground on the legality of the Applethwaite marriage, and on the acquittal of the old Earl as to the charge of bigamy. The English Countess being firm, so far as that ground would make her firm, it would in reality be for the other side for the young Earl to prove a former marriage.
At last, however, he was made to understand the nature of his companion's want, and expressed his belief that "John Applethwaite, up at the Craigs yon, had got a mickle cart."
At all events Daisy had very decided notions on the proper method of bringing up dogs, and children too; only there did not happen to be any children at Applethwaite Cottage to try experiments upon; and she was quite sure that Aunt Sophy allowed herself to be shamefully imposed upon by Don.
Sir George Beaumont, of Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire, a descendant of the dramatist, and representative of a family long distinguished for talent and culture, was staying with Coleridge at Greta Hall, Keswick, when, hearing of Coleridge's affection for Wordsworth, he was struck with the wish to bring Wordsworth also to Keswick, and bought and presented to him a beautiful piece of land at Applethwaite, under Skiddaw, in the hope that he might be induced to settle there.
I would carry my darling back to my father's house in Applethwaite; where, if we lived humbly, we lived at peace. I saw Dorothy change colour once or twice.
And Master Don began to give them less and less of his society in the daytime, and to wander from morn to dewy eve in solitude and independence; though whether he went up mountains to admire the view, or visited ruins and waterfalls, or spent his days hunting rabbits, no one at Applethwaite Cottage could even pretend to guess.
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