Modern Broods

but mine own.

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lmost at the narrowest part, where a little lively brawling stream descended from the moor amid rocks and brushwood. If the history of the place were told, it had been built for a shooti

and all the early daffodil kinds. Behind and on the southern side, lay the kitchen garden, also a succession of steps, and beyond as the ravine widened were small meadows, each with a big stone in the midst. The gulley, (or goyle) narrowed as it rose, and there was a disused limestone quarry, all wreathed over with creeping plants, a birch tree growing up all white and silvery in the middle, and above the house and garden was wood, not of fine trees, and interspersed with rocks, but giving shade and shelter. The opposite side had likewise fields

screens, brackets and drapery to enliven the ancient mahagony and rosewood, and she had accumulated a good many water colours, vases and knick-knacks. The old grand piano was found to be past its work, so that she went the length of purchasing a cottage one for the drawing-room, and another for the sitting-room that was to be the girls' own property, and on which she expended much care and contrivance. It opened into t

a should at once take possession of her own pretty room, and the two next sisters of theirs, while she herself would sleep in the dressing ro

ing how lovely the purple light on the moor was,

their luggage. Already she had a glimpse of the carriage, toiling up one hill, then disappearing between the hedges, and it was long before her gate, already open, was reached, and a

into the man's hand, Magdalen looked

, "bumped to pieces

ad been mending the

em with rocks, if you

distance!" a

replied Magdalen. "Here i

-"that really is quite impossi

own ten miles o

t church," c

wilds," s

ny drops of water in her face and that of her

" she said. "I have walked it several

t, smiling; "but hills, perhaps, r

omfortable wicker chair. "You will think little of it on your own feet, Vera

gain; while every one began laughing, and Agatha tol

and concentric

epicycle o

I saw it advertised in th

n," said Mrs. Best, as both elders burst out laughing; and Agath

ther rough sailing fo

alen; "but the Clipstone girls do not seem to thi

ghbours, then

ther off; but the daughters will be nice friends for you. I met one of them before, when she was staying at Lord Rotherwood's. But

er little lodger were only temporary; but it struck upon her rather painfully that the only word of a

cab over newly-mended roads! Were they as bad when I came? But then I could look out, and did not hear poor Sophy's

lina. "Here are the necessaries of life," said Agatha, handing out a brush and c

end of nowhe

ekla. "These tight boots do hu

moving the boots and accommodating a

sland," continued Vera, "shut up f

atha, in warning, si

s jolly and good-na

Elsie Lee always calls

added, "All the girls say sh

is only sixteen yea

t's half a

ineteen, what

. She has got the face an

ce and her dress like

maids. They dress themselves up youthfully and a

here's the waggon creeping up at a snail's pa