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The boys could hardly be distinguished one from another, especially when their hair was powdered; but that ceremony being too cumbrous for country-life, each of the lads commonly wore his own hair, George his raven black, and Harry his light locks, tied with a ribbon. Now Mrs. Mountain had a great turn for match-making, and fancied that everybody had a design to marry everybody else.
This little college town, this little hitherto corrupt state, are both small. I went at my business without delay. The big country-life idea, the working of great economic forces to put its vitalization within sight, the coming equilibrium by the restoration of country life all coincident with his coming into the Presidency. His Administration must fall in with it, guide it, further it.
"Well," said Constance, smiling, "go on." "I have finished." "Finished?" "Yes, my fair Insatiable! What more would you have?" "Why, this is but a country-life you have been talking of; very well in its way for three months in the year." "Italy, then, for the other nine," returned Godolphin. "Ah, Percy! is pleasure, mere pleasure, vulgar pleasure, to be really the sole end and aim of life?"
Is he out of humour with the country-life you like so well, Miss Ringgan? or has he left his domestic tastes in Mexico? How do you think he likes Queechy?" "You might as well ask myself," said Charlton. "How do you think he likes Queechy, Miss Ringgan?"
Three months were granted to Josephine in the quietude, in the sweet repose of country-life, at her husband's side, and with her children, to gather strength from the anxieties and griefs which she had suffered in Paris. She enjoyed these days as one enjoys an unexpected blessing, a last sunshine before winter's near approach, with thankful heart to God.
"Well," said Constance, smiling, "go on." "I have finished." "Finished?" "Yes, my fair Insatiable! What more would you have?" "Why, this is but a country-life you have been talking of; very well in its way for three months in the year." "Italy, then, for the other nine," returned Godolphin. "Ah, Percy! is pleasure, mere pleasure, vulgar pleasure, to be really the sole end and aim of life?"
She tried to interest Ernestine in the business of raising squabs for the market. She had read in some country-life magazine of a woman who had made a very good income by breeding this delicacy for the New York market. Ernestine had talked of buying a farm somewhere near the city for the summers, and Milly thought this could be made into a productive enterprise.
As we sat looking at the vast lawn, magnificent in its green apparel, she quoted Irving as one who had understood English country-life perhaps more deeply and fully than any other foreign author who had ever written. Speaking, one day, of the slowness of poetical fame, she said,
But it is an easy three miles' walk or ride from Reading Station, and by missing one train the pilgrim may get a glimpse of English country-life under its most favorable aspects, while at the same time, if skeptical as to this "strange yet true narration," as the metrical chronicler calls it, he may at any rate satisfy himself as to the marriage of B. Child and the Berkshire Lady, and the birth of their two daughters, by inspecting the parish register at Tilchurst church for the years 1710 to 1713.
There can be little doubt, generally speaking, that it is more satisfactory to pass Sunday in the country than in town. There is something in the essential stillness of country-life, which blends harmoniously with the ordinance of the most divine of our divine laws.
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