The Long Vacation

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they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those o

s that some seem as if they could not be parted with, and must be carried on in the mind, and not only have their aft

nt hues as they grew older, and so no doubt it is with thinkers. The outlines may be th

tisfaction in feeling and depicting the full pathos of a tragedy, and on the other hand they delight in their own mirth, and ful

sion are with the fathers, mothers, and aunts; they dread, rather than seek, piteous scenes, and they have learnt that there are two sides to

xperience, and a pleasure in tracing the perspective from another point of sight, where what was once distant has become near at hand,

with Beechcroft, Stoneborough, and Vale Leston, when they were peopled with the outcome of a youthful mind, and that they

children about them, and if the young will forgive the seeing with elder eyes, a