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'Oh yes, ma'am, says the housekeeper 'WE uses a Kitchener, Miss Mitford always kept an open range. The garden, with its sentry-box of privet, exists no longer; an iron mission-room stands in its place, with the harmonium, the rows of straw chairs, the table and the candlesticks de circonstance. Miss Mitford's picture hangs on the wall, a hand-coloured copy of one of her portraits.
And the extraordinary activity, which the Athenians displayed in resisting him, shows that the exertions of the orator had their due effect. Even Mitford confesses, with reference to the operations of that period, that Athens found in Demosthenes an able and effective minister.
Day after day the search was continued, even after all hope of ever again seeing their comrade alive had died out, but at last they were compelled to give it up and devote themselves to the urgent duty of procuring better shelter and food. As for poor Mrs Mitford, she sank into a state of helpless and hopeless despair.
"This won't do," said Slag, on making the discovery. "We'll have to steer d'rect for the highest land." "That's so, Joe," said Mitford, "and yonder's a height away there, right in the wind's eye, that will act as a beacon to us." "I sees it, John but, I say, what's the matter wi' Terrence?"
Miss Mitford says: "She was certainly one of the most interesting persons I had ever seen. Everybody who then saw her said the same.
Carlyle tells us "nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration"; and Miss Mitford admired to such an extent that she must have been lifted in this way nearly all her lifetime. Indeed she erred, if she erred at all, on this side, and overpraised and over-admired everything and everybody whom she regarded.
Hazlitt said that 'Haydon talked well on most subjects that interest one; indeed, better than any painter I ever met. Wordsworth and Talfourd echoed this opinion, and Miss Mitford tells us that he was a most brilliant talker racy, bold, original, and vigorous, 'a sort of Benvenuto Cellini, all air and fire.
She took me some six miles on foot in Mr. Palmer's beautiful plantations, in search of that exquisite wild-flower the bog-bean, do you know it? most beautiful of flowers, either wild or, as K. puts it, "tame." After long search we found the plant not yet in bloom. Dr. Mitford weeps over his daughters exhaustion, telling everybody that she is killing herself by her walks and drives.
He went thither, not on official business, but on a matter connected with a monument to Miss Mitford, in which Mr. Harness, a clergyman and some sort of a government clerk, is interested. I gathered from this conversation that there is no great enthusiasm about the monumental affair among the British public.
Indeed, though it may seem a strange thing to say of a gentleman who has published so many quartos, Mr Mitford seems to entertain a feeling, bordering on contempt, for literary and speculative pursuits. The talents of action almost exclusively attract his notice; and he talks with very complacent disdain of "the idle learned."
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