. American scenery. CHAPTER I. The wit and wisdom of a pleasant circle of gay friends who,While they never exceed, yet always quite fill up, the limits ofbecoming mirth, had, through a long evening, dashed a floodof laughing sunshine upon the sombre-hued walls of our antiquestudio. The sparkling coruscations of their mad humour availed,however, but partially to exorcise the heavy shadows which hunglike a pall over our usually buoyant spirits. One disquietingthought oppressed us, and, as usual, awakened our entire scheduleof ugly remembrances, which to be sure had no earthly relation-ship to th
. American scenery. CHAPTER I. The wit and wisdom of a pleasant circle of gay friends who,While they never exceed, yet always quite fill up, the limits ofbecoming mirth, had, through a long evening, dashed a floodof laughing sunshine upon the sombre-hued walls of our antiquestudio. The sparkling coruscations of their mad humour availed,however, but partially to exorcise the heavy shadows which hunglike a pall over our usually buoyant spirits. One disquietingthought oppressed us, and, as usual, awakened our entire scheduleof ugly remembrances, which to be sure had no earthly relation-ship to the first intrusive visitor, yet came in that hateful gre-garious spirit to which misery is proverbially given. While thehours were flying in the brilliant, yet, as it then seemed to us,bootless pleasure of social gossip, we were thinking of dutiesdeferred, of time misspent, and fair occasions gone forever by;and in that wretched state of mental languor, which though itsees, yet is too feeble to confront and conquer d
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