The Long VacationYonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
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The Long Vacation
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
Upper class -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Vacations -- Fiction
Seats were ranged on the lawn, and when every one had had time to wonder
at everything, from Lady Rotherwood’s set of emeralds, down to the
choirboys’ carved bracket, the house-bell was rung, and all had to take
their places on the lawn, fairly shaded by house, cloister, and cedar
tree, and facing the conservatory, whose steps, with the terrace, formed
a kind of platform. It is not needful to go through all, or how John
Harewood, as host, explained that they had thought that it would be
well to allow their guests to have the advantage of hearing their
distinguished visitors tell of their experiences. And so they did,
the Bishop pleading the cause of missions with his wonderful native
eloquence, as he stood by the chair where his father sat listening to
him, as to a strain of sweet music long out of reach. Then Leonard Ward
simply and bluntly told facts about the Pacific islands and islanders,
that set hearts throbbing, and impelled more than one young heart to
long to tread in the like course.
Then Lord Rotherwood thanked and bungled as usual, so that Gustave
Tanneguy would have a hard matter to reduce what he called the
“aristocratic tongue” to plain English, or rather reporter’s English.
The listeners were refreshed with tea, coffee, and lemonade, and there
was a final service in the church, which many gladly attended, and thus
ended what had been a true holiday.
CHAPTER XXXIV. -- RIGHTED
Perhaps the cup was broken here,
That Heaven’s new wine might show more clear.
E. B. BROWNING.
“No. 14, Huron St., Jonesville, Ohio,
“July 19.
“MY DEAR MADAM,
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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