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At the same time she had no intention of diminishing it. She dressed herself in a black velvet suit made by her New York tailors. She had spent, a fortnight with her brother Ballinger on her way home, and he had given her a set of silver fox: a large muff and two of those priceless animals head to head to keep a small section of her anatomy at blood heat in a climate never cold enough for furs.
It has no springs, but lying 2250 feet above the sea and in a lovely valley, mountain girt, it has pure atmosphere and an equable climate; and being both a summer and winter resort, it has acquired a watering-place air. There are Southerners who declare that it is too hot in summer, and that the complete circuit of mountains shuts out any lively movement of air.
An endless variety might be made in these localities, the difference of climate, material and habits of thought adding interest as well as variety, and it is safe to say that the home market is waiting for them.
Was he the magician to conjure happiness for her? "What is your plan?" she asked. "I have two passages taken in a brig for the Mediterranean. We go to New York a day or two before she sails. That's all." "And then?" asked his companion, with wonder and doubt in her voice. "And then a blissful climate and happiness." "And then?" she persisted, in a low, doubtful voice.
To his great relief, the doctor pronounced that a temporary residence in a warm climate was the very thing likely to be most beneficial to him. The appointment was accordingly accepted, and, before many weeks had passed, Robert Stephenson set sail for South America.
Among us, the care that is taken of education, small and nearly equal estates, equality of rights, and the severity of the climate, renders the people active, industrious and sober. Attention to religion and good morals is a distinguishing trait in our character.
What's the difference who writes it, so long as it's done?" "Oh, I hope it wasn't because he is sick! You don't think he is sick, do you, ma?" "Sick your granny; what's to make him sick?" "Oh, there's never any telling. These foreigners with that kind of names are so delicate, and of course that kind of names are not suited to our climate you wouldn't expect it."
Digby had now got breath to speak, and he said meekly, "The climate would have killed my child, and it is two years since I returned." "You ought to have found a very good place in England to make it worth your while to leave Canada." "She could not have lived through another winter in Canada, the doctor said so." "Pooh," quoth the colonel. Mr. Digby drew a long breath.
In the darkness, where at first, after so much sunlight, the little electric lamps seem to us scarcely more than glow-worms, we expected a certain amount of chilliness as in the undergrounds of our climate. But here there is only a more oppressive heat, stifling and withering, and we long to return to the open air, which was burning indeed, but was at least the air of life.
The still, starlight night is awakened by the harsh bark of the elk; the lofty mountains, grey with the silvery moonlight, echo back the sound; and the wakeful hounds answer the well-known cry by a prolonged and savage yell. This is 'Newera Ellia, the sanatorium of Ceylon, the most perfect climate of the world.
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