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Mr Brandon was not a weak man, nor one very susceptible to outside influences, but, in the whole course of his life, nothing so extraordinarily nerve-stirring had occurred to him as this visit of old Mrs Keswick, endeavoring to appear in the character of the young creature he had wooed some forty-five years before.
But their father did not like 'crowds. They came to the Lakes always before or after the regular season. Mr. Cookson hated the concourse of motorists in August, and never would use one himself. Not even when they went from Ambleside to Keswick. They must always walk, or go by the horse-coach. Nelly presently looked up, and gave a little pull to the corner of her husband's moustache.
I don't imagine that he has dropped from the skies! If you don't know, and haven't troubled yourself to find out, I shall set the police on at once, track his friends, and hand him over!" Undershaw was at once all civility and alacrity. "I have already made some inquiries at Keswick, Mr. Melrose, where I was this morning.
The widow Keswick has as many cranks and crotchets in her head as there are seeds in a tobacco pod; but this is the queerest and the wildest of them all. The couple seem very much attached to each other, and nothing can be said against the husband except that he did not accompany his wife on her visit to her relatives; and if he knew anything about the old lady I don't blame him a bit.
It was absolutely necessary that more should be told to him, and explained to him. Seeing the negro boy Plez crossing the yard, he called him and asked him to tell Mr Keswick that Mr Croft wished to see him immediately. "Mahs' Junius," said the boy, "he done gone to de railroad to take de kyars. He done took he knapsack on he back, an' walk 'cross de fiel's."
At noon we took a car for Portinscale, and drove back along the road to Keswick, through which we passed, stopping to get a perhaps of letters at the post-office, and reached Portinscale, which is a mile from Keswick. After dinner we walked over a bridge, and through a green lane, to the church where Southey is buried. It is a white church, of Norman architecture, with a low, square tower.
However painful the detail, it is presumed that the reader would desire a knowledge of the undisguised truth. This can not be obtained without introducing the following letters of Mr. Southey, received from him after having sent him copies of the letters which passed between Mr. Coleridge and myself. "'KESWICK, April, 1814.
"Junius Keswick," she said, "you have deliberately come to me, and offered me the hand of another man in marriage." "Not that," said Junius, "I merely came to explain ." "Do not split hairs," she interrupted, "you did exactly that. You came to me because he could not come himself, and offered him to me. Now go to him from me, and tell him that I accept him."
"Have you any tea," said Miss Annie, "better than the kind which you usually sell to Mrs Keswick?" "No, ma'am," said he. "We send her the very best tea we have." "I am not finding fault with it," she said, "but I thought you might have some extra kind, more expensive than people usually buy for common use."
Of course this letter is for your brother, as for you; but I shall write to him soon. God bless you, S. T. Coleridge. Thomas Wedgewood, Esq." "Keswick, November 3, 1802. Dear Wedgewood, It is now two hours since I received your letter; and after the necessary consultation, Mrs. Coleridge herself is fully of opinion that to lose time is merely to lose spirits.
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