Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 29, 2025
I have been hardly myself for these last weeks. Yet I can wait." I spoke to Mr. Clifton as he was about to leave the library. He blenched at hearing my voice, and strove to conceal the package beneath his arm. "How do my good friends in Foxden?" said I, inviting him into my alcove. "Is it true that Dr. Dastick has presented his cabinet of curiosities to the town?"
Yet, when my friend copied for me some extracts from the lady's letters that were sensible and feminine, I thought how odd it would be, if something should come of it, after all. I often found myself skipping Colonel Prowley's accounts of old Doctor Dastick, Mrs. Hunesley, and other great people of his town, and pondering upon the notices of his Western correspondent.
"The bone-parties of old Doctor Dastick," explained the Colonel, "are entertainments peculiar to Foxden; and as there is to be one this evening to which we are all invited, any anticipation of the diversion seems likely to diminish whatever of satisfaction may be in prospect.
"Not unless you substitute Saint Josselyn for an ancestor, as Mrs. Hunesley did the other day," said Miss Prowley. "Ha, ha! it might not be a bad plan to follow out the lady's suggestion: but do tell the story of her strange mistake." "Why, you must know that the other day old Doctor Dastick brought his New-York niece to call upon us.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking