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She followed the stream, and, climbing some stairs, came out into a large, long, empty hay-loft, over what had once been hunting stables the children's wet-day play-place.
He can talk by the hour to those who feel with him; but to be challenged, to have his fierce invective submitted to the severe test of an inexorable logic, this limits his audacity; and his audacity once limited, his power is gone. But I must not forget that I have brought him into my wet-day galaxy as a farmer.
Up the sides of its embankment wild vines have twisted and climbed, and wild-flowers have budded into bloom. Berlin Falls is hardly a wet-day resource, but the day on which we saw it changed its mind after we left the hotel, and from clouds and promise of sunshine turned into clouds and certainty of rain.
I never admired greatly James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd; yet he belongs of double right in the coterie of my wet-day preachers. Bred a shepherd, he tried farming, and he wrote pastorals. The Ettrick Shepherd of the "Noctes Ambrosianæ" is, I fancy, as much becolored by the wit of Professor Wilson as any daughter of a duchess whom Sir Joshua changed into a nymph.
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