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Cox made up the family. They were well off, and lived comfortably in a detached cottage of two storys. It began when Jennie and Esther were in bed one night. Esther jumped up, saying that there was a mouse in the bed. Next night, a green band-box began to make a rustling noise, and then rose a foot in the air, several times.
In the summer of 1869 he wandered with his son and his sister, in company with his friends of Italian days, the Storys, in Scotland, and at Lock Luichart Lodge visited Lady Ashburton. Three summers, those of 1870, 1872 and 1873 were spent at Saint-Aubin, a wild "un-Murrayed" village on the coast of Normandy, where Milsand occupied a little cottage hard by.
These in their turn disappear, and a grand pagoda suddenly drops, as from the skies, out of the burning mass, its different storys all distinctly marked by parti-colored lamps, whilst little rockets are continually going off at all its windows. What, not finished yet? No; exit pagoda, enter a royal crown, dominating the Prince of Wales' feathers, with the initials "A V" and "G" underneath.
But Carthage was defended throughout the whole breadth of the isthmus: first by a trench, then by a grassy rampart, and lastly by a wall thirty cubits high, built of freestone, and in two storys.
Inside the barricade on the left, on the side where the passage was, could be seen a high paling of badly joined planks, through which shone in places a feeble light. Above the paling rose out, lost in the darkness, a house of six or seven storys; the ground floor, which was being repaired, and which was under-pinned, being closed in by these planks.
But Hamilcar's eyes were fastened on a great tower, the three storys of which formed three monster cylinders the first being built of stone, the second of brick, and the third all of cedar supporting a copper cupola upon twenty-four pillars of juniper, from which slender interlacing chains of brass hung down after the manner of garlands.
B , Scotch people from the next villa, had come to see the Storys, and we sat till tea-time reading, talking, William Story drawing caricatures for his children's amusement and ours, and all of us sometimes getting up to look at the comet, which blazed brighter and brighter till it went down into the mists of the horizon.
In the highest spirits we entered Rome, Robert and Penini singing actually for the child was radiant and flushed with the continual change of air and scene. . . . You remember my telling you of our friends the Storys how they and their two children helped to make the summer go pleasantly at the Baths of Lucca.
'Next day we took stock of our acquaintances, found that the Storys, on whom we had counted for company, were at Vallombrosa, though the two sons have a studio here other friends are in sufficient number however and last evening we began our visits by a very classical one to the Countess Mocenigo, in her palace which Byron occupied: she is a charming widow since two years, young, pretty and of the prettiest manners: she showed us all the rooms Byron had lived in, and I wrote my name in her album on the desk himself wrote the last canto of 'Ch.
Well they was as many there as could crowd in and the band played and they was singing and gags and storys and etc. and they didn't call on me till pretty near the last.
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