. American scenery. a penance, returned them know only the results. My good friend Sydney,whose genius alone has accomplished these glorious effectswill know best how to complete hia work. * * * 4f * * Once again the good good people of -were taken by surprise. Mr. and Mrs. Morton were never to be seen buttogether, each as gay and joyous as in the merry days oftheir courtship. Whenever allusion happened to be made tothe metamorphosis, Frank looked with a smile of pity andtriumph upon the querist, which seemed to establish the verycommon report, that the scandal-loving public had been
. American scenery. a penance, returned them know only the results. My good friend Sydney,whose genius alone has accomplished these glorious effectswill know best how to complete hia work. * * * 4f * * Once again the good good people of -were taken by surprise. Mr. and Mrs. Morton were never to be seen buttogether, each as gay and joyous as in the merry days oftheir courtship. Whenever allusion happened to be made tothe metamorphosis, Frank looked with a smile of pity andtriumph upon the querist, which seemed to establish the verycommon report, that the scandal-loving public had been theegregious dupes of the inveterate wag and bitter satirist, Frank 294 THE ROMANCE OP AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. Morton, who, vritli the assistance of his equally satirical Isa-dora, had so long successfully played the part of the Hen-pecked Husband! Their envious friends were compelled toswallow this bitter pill of chagrin, when even the hithertoinvincible Sydney confessed that his friend Frank had at lastdone Mm Brown!. ^M^i0§ CHAPTER XIT. Gentlemen, said the chairman, as we gathered for thelast time around our social board, we are happily completingour pleasant labours, just as the returning summer is callingus forth again to the actual enjoyment of those out-of-doorbeauties, with which we have so long been delighting ourselvesin memory and in fancy. With a hasty visit, to-night, to the charming landscape ofthe Eastern States, we must close our discursive pilgrimage,and shake hands, with the hope that our recollections may giveas much pleasure to our readers, as they have afforded toourselves. We have lingered amidst many lovely scenes in our grandtour of the Union, but none more beautiful than those we haveyet to look upon, among the noble hills, and valleys, and lakesof brave and gallant New England. It is a very easy andvery remunerative labour to travel here, where the facilitiesof locomotion are so great, and where every step offers someobject of interest and beauty in phys
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