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It is just what poor dear mamma used to say. She always was willing, you know, to do everything but the thing that I wanted her to do. I remember, just to mention a single instance, how mamma broke up a delightful water party on Windermere that Sir Gordon Graham had arranged expressly for us.
Gaining the summit of the hill, I had the best view of Windermere which I have yet attained, the best, I should think, that can be had, though, being towards the south, it brings the softer instead of the more striking features of the landscape into view.
When all the faculties are wide-awake in pursuit of a single object, or fixed in the spasm of an absorbing emotion, they are oftentimes clairvoyant in a marvellous degree in respect to many collateral things, as Wordsworth has so forcibly illustrated in his sonnet on the Boy of Windermere, and as Hawthorne has developed with such metaphysical accuracy in that chapter of his wondrous story where Hester walks forth to meet her punishment.
In social usages, America borrows constantly from the mother country. But like all borrowing it seems to be one-sided, for seldom, very, very seldom, in point of etiquette and manners does England borrow from us. Yet there are exceptions. It is a beautiful highway that skirts Lake Windermere and follows up through Ambleside.
There was no withstanding such an appeal. It must be answered, and immediately. Lord Hartfield went into the library and wrote his reply message, which consisted of six words. 'Going to you by first train. The next train left Windermere at three. There was just time to get a fresh horse put in the dogcart, and a Gladstone bag packed.
'Well, that is just what I do with my house every Thursday evening, cried Lady Windermere, laughing, 'only I like lions better than collie dogs. 'Your one mistake, Lady Windermere, said Mr. Podgers, with a pompous bow. 'If a woman can't make her mistakes charming, she is only a female, was the answer. 'But you must read some more hands for us. Come, Sir Thomas, show Mr.
All the sternness of it is softened by vegetative beauty wherever it can possibly be thrown in; and there is not here, so strongly as along Windermere, evidence that human art has been helping out Nature. I wish it were possible to give any idea of the shapes of the hills; with these, at least, man has nothing to do, nor ever will have anything to do.
Within ten years from his getting a foothold on Windermere banks, he had raised periodical literature to a height unknown before in our time, by his contributions to "Blackwood's Magazine"; and he seemed to step naturally into the Moral Philosophy Chair in Edinburgh in 1820.
Gaining the summit of the hill, I had the best view of Windermere which I have yet attained, the best, I should think, that can be had, though, being towards the south, it brings the softer instead of the more striking features of the landscape into view.
But nurse held him fast; and very soon they were through the crowd, and father had put them safe into their new train, into a carriage marked "Windermere," which would take them all the way to their journey's end. "That was like lions and bears, wasn't it, mother?" said Olly, pointing to the crowd in the station, as they went puffing away.
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