Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 17, 2025
I look now upon myself as a real Backfisch, as the Germans call very young girls, and that is simply what I am; and I feel that I ought never to have been allowed to sport about in those fascinating clear waters which reflected no shadows, now that I must go back to the millpond and learn to swim.
Sometimes a flock of swans were seen passing over at a great height on their long journeys, and we admired their clear bugle notes, but they seldom visited any of the lakes in our neighborhood, so seldom that when they did it was talked of for years. One was shot by a blacksmith on a millpond with a long-range Sharp's rifle, and many of the neighbors went far to see it.
"Oh, that's beyond dispute. There's a case that we all know about all here in Charlemont the case of Joe Barney's millpond. Barney lost one of his children and one of his negroes in the pond drowned as a judgment, they say, for fishing a Sunday. That didn't make any difference with the fish: you could catch them there just the same as before. But when old Mrs.
There is no need to explain the picture. Have you any more?" "Yes, sir; quite a number. I'm glad I brought them with me." Mr. Denny turned them over slowly, and commented briefly upon them. "That's the house. Very well done, my boy. That's the mill. Excellent. I should know it at once. And eh! what's that? The batting mill?" "Yes, sir. That's the new building going up beyond the millpond."
How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays! gathering grapes for them from the wild vines that overrun the surrounding trees, reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tombstones; or sauntering with a whole bevy of them, along the banks of the adjacent millpond, while the more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his superior elegance and address.
Conjectures as to the originals of imaginary portraits, are generally futile; but Miss Millpond not Donna Inez is obviously Lady Byron; in Adeline we may suspect that at Genoa he was drawing from the life in the Villa Paradiso; while Aurora Raby seems to be an idealization of La Guiccioli:
As the two old men walked slowly up the hill on the way home they heard the news for which Duncan had been anxiously waiting: the ice on the lake had broken, and the boys intended to bring down their lumber on the morrow. The next day passed, warm and sunshiny, but Donald Neil's logs did not appear in the Glenoro millpond.
Every power of affection that I had has gone out like a candle. I do neglect the children! It's because I can't look them in the face. I've failed him, and I've failed them, and I ought to tie a stone round my neck and jump into the nearest millpond." "It's a good three miles to the nearest millpond," I said. "And there isn't a stone in this part of South Carolina.
At the mouth of the Gap he saw the white valley lying at peace in the moonlight and straightway from it sprang again, as always, his castle in the air; but before he fell asleep in his cottage on the edge of the millpond that night he heard quite plainly again: "I'll go with ye anywhar."
And Bob Endress was such a nice boy. Nancy decided that her first good opinion of him, formed when she had seen him wading in the millpond after water-lilies, was correct. He was gentlemanly, frank, and as jolly as could be. She remembered very well now that she had heard various other girls at Pinewood Hall talk of Bob Endress. He was some distant connection of the haughty Grace Montgomery.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking