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mind. They cheered, in some measure, the grief from his heart, and he began to smile again. For several days they engaged him to ramble with them over the hills and dales, and pointed out new beauties to attract his admiration, and draw forth his reflections.

"These are the scenes," said Althorpe," in which we might say, with our Shakspeare

• Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote,

Cleanse the steep'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart ?'"

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The friends thus occupied were glad to perceive that their persevering efforts were crowned with success. downcast eye began again to gaze upon the expansive prospect-his chilled heart began again to soften. Nature, as she spread forth her pure and lovely charms, unchained his ice-bound feelings, and he began to exclaim,

"Now comes thy glory in the summer months,

The rolling year is full of Thee.”

They would not leave him there, they said, to pine over nis irrevocable losses, and to indulge the unavailing sorrows of bereavement.

The web of our life

Is of a mingled yarn, bad and good together,"

said Mr. Whiteden ; "return with us to your own home and

your own downs; and as you peruse every book in which your beloved Sophia's eye rested, so take courage to walk over again the lovely fields, hills, and woods, trodden by her feet; crop the flowers which her own hand planted, and let her memory produce a richer fragrance than they breathe cheer you on the road to a better world, which she now inhabits." Mr. Haggitt listened and was persuaded; and now the travellers left in company to wind their way back to their own homes.

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CHAPTER L.

LANERCOST AND MR. NIMROD.

AGREEING to travel in company, they hired a chariot with a dickey, which afforded one of the party the opportunity of riding outside; and this seat Charles took to have a more extensive view of the sublime scenery through which they passed; and as the windows were open, the conversation was mutual. "What a beautiful valley" said he, "we are coming into, embosomed in hills, with buildings like towers on each side, as if to guard the retreat from intruding foes; while our road, shaded with trees, winds through rich enclosures, sheltered with the wide-spreading branches of the oak and the elm tree, and conducts us under a castellated gateway to an abbey." "See, too," said Mr. Whiteden, "that spire in the distance, peeping behind a hill, round which winds the road; how beautiful and romantic!" Althorpe who had visited it before said, "This is the far-famed beautiful valley of Lanercost, called 'The valley of St. Mary Holme,' from the dedication of the abbey, which stands in its centre, to St. Mary Magdalen." "Look at that castle on the brow of the hill," said Charles. 66 That," said Althorpe, "is called Castle Carrack, surrounded by a square vallum of one hundred and twenty paces to each side. It is of Saxon origin." The friends alighted from the chariot and walked out, and

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AGREEING to travel in company, they hired a chariot with a dickey, which afforded one of the party the opportunity of riding outside; and this seat Charles took to have a more extensive view of the sublime scenery through which they passed; and as the windows were open, the conversation was mutual. "What a beautiful valley" said he, "we are coming into, embosomed in hills, with buildings like towers on each side, as if to guard the retreat from intruding foes; while our road, shaded with trees, winds through rich enclosures, sheltered with the wide-spreading branches of the oak and the elm tree, and conducts us under a castellated gateway to an abbey." "See, too," said Mr. Whiteden, "that spire in the distance, peeping behind a hill, round which winds the road; how beautiful and romantic!" Althorpe who had visited it before said, "This is the far-famed beautiful valley of Lanercost, called 'The valley of St. Mary Holme,' from the dedication of the abbey, which stands in its centre, to St. Mary Magdalen." "Look at that castle on the brow of the hill," said Charles. 66 "That," said Althorpe, "is called Castle Carrack, surrounded by a square vallum of one hundred and twenty paces to each side. It is of Saxon origin." The friends alighted from the chariot and walked out, and

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