United States or Togo ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I think every one should have their hands told once a month, so as to know what not to do. Of course, one does it all the same, but it is so pleasant to be warned. Now if some one doesn't go and fetch Mr. Podgers at once, I shall have to go myself. 'Let me go, Lady Windermere, said a tall handsome young man, who was standing by, listening to the conversation with an amused smile.
We planned our bridal excursion. We would visit the scenes endeared to her by song, to me by childhood, the banks and waves of my native Windermere, our one brief holiday before life returned to labour, and hearts now so disquieted by hope and joy settled down to the calm serenity of home. As we thus talked, the moon, nearly rounded to her full, rose amidst skies without a cloud.
The dying man's curse had it not been fulfilled? A new occupant for the old house was found within a week after Mrs. Ashleigh had written from London to a house-agent at L , intimating her desire to dispose of the lease. Shortly before we had gone to Windermere, Miss Brabazon had become enriched by a liberal life-annuity bequeathed to her by her uncle, Sir Phelim.
The party camped and built the boats they needed, and a fortnight later they were poling up-stream to the lake we to-day know as Windermere, where Thompson built a fort which he called 'Kootenai. Here he spent the winter trading, and when the warm Chinook winds cleared away the snows, in April 1808, about the time Fraser was preparing to descend the Fraser river, he paddled up-stream to where the Columbia river has its source in Upper Columbia Lake.
Mother pretended to take Milly a drive all about the mountains, and made her find out their names, and the names of the towns and the lakes, beginning with Lake Windermere. Olly was interested too, for Mrs. Norton told them a great many things about the places, and made quite a story out of it.
At a distant bend in the road he turned his head and looked back along that dismal heath. All five were packed in the cab, and the coachman was urging the unwilling horse into a trot. And what of Cynthia? The break in the weather was the one thing needed to put an abrupt end to all pretense of enjoyment so far as the Windermere tourists were concerned.
It was early in June; the swallows chased each other in sport, twittering as they flew over the blue bosom of Windermere; every bush, every tree yea, it seemed as if every branch sent forth the music of singing birds, and the very air was redolent with melody, from the bold songs of the thrush and the lark to the love-note of the wood-pigeon; and even the earth rejoiced in the chirp of the grasshopper, its tiny but pleasant musician.
I was once there for a month when I was a child; we went to see Windermere and the Lakes." "You got no further north? That was a pity, our country is most beautiful but it is not too late you may go there yet some day." "Who knows?" and she laughed gaily she had to allow herself some outlet, she felt she would otherwise have screamed.
I suppose the whole mountain is named from it. Lancaster sands and the Irish sea were very beautiful, and so also the two lakes of Coniston and Windermere, lying in the vastest space of sweet cultivated country I have ever looked over, a great part of the view from the Rigi being merely over black pine forest, even on the plains.
I hope you will not grow tired of me! 'Tired! Then came silence, and a long farewell kiss, and then the voice of Maulevrier shouting in the hall, just in time to warn the lovers, before Miss Müller opened the door and exclaimed, 'Oh, Mr. Hammond, we have been looking for you everywhere. The luggage is all in the carriage, and Maulevrier says there is only just time to get to Windermere!
Word Of The Day