Medoline Selwyn's Work

caves where the waves penetrated far under the rocks at high tide. The grounds I found very extensive-in places alm

n on those lovely Kentish estates where I had visited, my heart had been grieved by the extremes of wealth and squalor. Pinched-faced women and children gazing hungrily through park gates at the flowers, and fountains, and all the beauty within, while they had no homes worthy the name, and alas! no flowers or fountains to gladden their beauty hungered hearts. My friends used to smi

he combined influence of wind and sun. I expressed to Mrs. Flaxman a desire to visit my new acquai

Mill Road experience to have a friendl

sual thing for our friends to visit the poor and sick on

subjects-mere royal progresses, more bother than blessing. Miss Selwyn, I fa

I quite comprehended your meaning, I sh

illing to dispense with the dignity for sake of the friendliness that would reco

e a changeling, in spirit probably; there could be no mistake, I presume, in my phys

ry, I do believe," Hubert said, w

eyes and wondered why my few, simple w

ese I had arranged with some wet mosses I found in the woods that morning; and begging a nice little basket from the housekeeper, had them ve

ely feel equal for such a walk this hot d

le me to have you walk any di

o an idle habit of taking my outings in t

y seemed to be awaiting my pleasure. I could not believe she was a se

ne cordiality, and then led me into a close smelling room. The floor was covered with a cheap carpet, a few common chairs, a very much worn horse-hair sofa, and a table covered with a very new, and very gay-looking cloth, comprised the furnishing, with the exception of walls decorated with cheap chromos in the most wonderful frames I ever saw,-some of them made of shells, some of leather, some of moss, and others simp

pse?" Mrs. Blake questioned, suddenly b

u would car

nderness that surprised me, and placed them

ire flowers

less things, I s'pose. No

perfect whil

en I see 'em put round a corpse and buried in the gro

of pity for the flowers, the poor dead woman lying opposite, or m

e. "Dan'el's terrible cut up; it minds me so of the time we lost our fi

he was a ver

their children's eyes. I often think, in some ways, 'twould be best for one generation to die off afore the next takes their place. It's a mercy we don't live like they did in the first of

k from experience," I

elp, instead of getting help. But I'm not thinking of myself a

conversation ab

like to see

stood beside the still, outstretched form. She turned down the sheet when, for an instant, my head swam; and then I shut firmly my eyes

ou fa

directly, and sat d

but the sight wa

rence in corpses. Perfessors of

he not

Beside Dan'el tells me she suffered uncommon till the very la

a pro

way. But my! they was a sight better'n s

me a Christia

all look for a quiet spell afore we die." I felt as if skeleton finge

row at two o'clock; perhaps

ike me to atten

would be a comfort to have you. Quality alwa

d among that class

wards the setting sun. "I hain't thought much about th

ter way of life; but remembering that I too was

d to leave, when I saw Esmerelda

antly with my escort; but probably she had not got the same lesson as I, for she put on as many airs as before.

the cham

s she

gly claims that title with us; I

" I left the sen

Road and take

their proper place as they do in Europe? One is n

tem has its grievances; if human nature had not suffered so severel

generations of training to fit on

n in those Royal families that cost you so much to support, and what do many of them amount to?

colns; and I fear we can fi

ambermaid. What fault

ough utterly

e impresses me with her own superiorit

ists in the matter of personal attire; but I usually

ing objects of contemplation than personal attire do not bestow enough t

vention the matter of dress has been an a

men the last time I was visiting in England, and their minds seemed so far superior to their bodies, or the clothes

o philosophize on the matter of clot

something better than a m

I think you will suit Mr. Winthrop after he gets to