. Midsummer Eve : a fairy tale of loving and being loved . ■;- ^^ ^^ ~!^ - - ■-. _ ^ ..^_ i-^-^^ 1 ¥ U r4 11 n Jl ■ ^^li^^^^-Pk. M:-M,-: ¥--^^inp been so often damped down, that their very hearts were macerating—apples, spotted like the pard, hand-polished oranges, and half-blindnuts; while more than half-dirty children, clinging to their mothersskirts, clamoured for striped sticks of fingered sweetmeats. Give me a penny to buy a bit of bread, exclaimed a fierce-lookingman to the artist and his wife. The beggar was buttoned up close to thethroat, and his eyes glared beneath his knitted b
. Midsummer Eve : a fairy tale of loving and being loved . ■;- ^^ ^^ ~!^ - - ■-. _ ^ ..^_ i-^-^^ 1 ¥ U r4 11 n Jl ■ ^^li^^^^-Pk. M:-M,-: ¥--^^inp been so often damped down, that their very hearts were macerating—apples, spotted like the pard, hand-polished oranges, and half-blindnuts; while more than half-dirty children, clinging to their mothersskirts, clamoured for striped sticks of fingered sweetmeats. Give me a penny to buy a bit of bread, exclaimed a fierce-lookingman to the artist and his wife. The beggar was buttoned up close to thethroat, and his eyes glared beneath his knitted brows— Give me thepenny, he repeated, I am starving! A FAIRY TALK OF LOVE, 229 Are you sure you want it for food ? inquired Sidney, as his fingerswandered amongst the few halfpence that were in his pocket—hardto find! The man muttered no thanks, hut pointing to where the spiritPest-house displayed its coloured poisons through panes of costly glass,waved the coin in exultation as he dashed into the door, exclaiming,Now I shall have gin! A young fragile woman, lingering on thethreshold, staggered to Eva, and gazing in
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