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Our resting place afforded nothing remarkable; and indeed I feel that some apology is due to my readers for the unavoidable sameness of the details of this part of our journey; but I am in hopes that this very defect, though it render the perusal of my journal still heavier, will assist in conveying an accurate idea of the nature of the country; it is not my fault if we met with no adventures, no hairbreadth escapes, or perilous encounters.
Very useful additions have also been made to our knowledge of the Mississippi by Lieutenant Pike, who has ascended it to its source, and whose journal and map, giving the details of his journey, will shortly be ready for communication to both Houses of Congress. Those of Messrs. Lewis, Clarke, and Freeman will require further time to be digested and prepared.
The missing marlinespike was swinging there, banging against the hull with every roll of the ship. It was fastened by a rope lanyard to a large bolt below the rail, and fastened with what Burns called a Blackwall hitch a sailor's knot. I find, from my journal, that the next seven days passed without marked incident.
'They include, I presume, correspondence? 'Good, interposed Mr Gregsbury. 'The arrangement of papers and documents? 'Very good. 'Occasionally, perhaps, the writing from your dictation; and possibly, sir, said Nicholas, with a half-smile, 'the copying of your speech for some public journal, when you have made one of more than usual importance. 'Certainly, rejoined Mr Gregsbury. 'What else?
"That," she observes, as well she may, "was considered being fond of the opera." A paragraph in one of Horace Walpole's letters gives us the record of a day and a night in the life of an English lady, sixteen hours of "strain" which would put New York to the blush. "I heard the Duchess of Gordon's journal of last Monday," he writes to Miss Berry in the spring of 1791.
A most excellent book, which I am reading with great delight, is Mr. Gardiner's 'Reign of Charles I. before the Rebellion. It is, to me, as interesting as Macaulay, and singularly impartial. And the Journal winds up the year with: December 12th To Foxholes. Reeve wrote on December 24th: We start this morning for Farnborough Hill.
He is the proprietor of an important journal, through whose columns he shall help to guide the policy of your nation." Monsieur Jesen sat down. His fingers were clutching one another. Mademoiselle stared at Herr Freudenberg. Her color was coming and going. "Monsieur, I do not understand!" she cried. "Are you a prince in disguise? Why do you do this?"
Percival selected a short letter, written by some public man, which chanced to have found a place in the evening journal. Frank wrote rapidly, and when his copy was finished submitted it to Mr. Percival. The old gentleman took it, and, running his eye over it, noticed that it was plainly written, correctly spelled and properly punctuated. This discovery evidently gave him satisfaction.
Converse with ten ordinary middle-class Englishmen, men of business or position, receiving or imparting the current of opinion which is uppermost in their class, probably nine of them will express views which you will find amplified in the columns of the Times. That journal is neither above their level nor below it; as matters strike them, so do they also strike the Times.
I have already obtained several not to be found in Switzerland; and even in my short stay here I have had the good fortune to discover a new species, of which I have made a very exact description, to be printed in some journal of natural history. Were my dear Cecile here, I should have begged her to draw it nicely for me. That would have been pleasant indeed.
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