A Kentucky cardinal ; and, Aftermath . A fccbc** TOPLOFTICAL STRUTTING. 67 around town, and a pusillanimous crack or twoover the back-garden fence at my birds, theywent away again, to the home of this New Yorkcousin, carrying Georgiana with them to spendthe summer. Nothing has happened since. Only Sylviaand I have been making hay while the sunshines — or does not shine, if one chooses toregard Georgianas absence in that cloudyfashion. Sylvias ordinary armour consists of aslate-pencil for a spear, a slate for a shield, anda volume of Sir Walter for a bludgeon. Nowand then I have found her sitti
A Kentucky cardinal ; and, Aftermath . A fccbc** TOPLOFTICAL STRUTTING. 67 around town, and a pusillanimous crack or twoover the back-garden fence at my birds, theywent away again, to the home of this New Yorkcousin, carrying Georgiana with them to spendthe summer. Nothing has happened since. Only Sylviaand I have been making hay while the sunshines — or does not shine, if one chooses toregard Georgianas absence in that cloudyfashion. Sylvias ordinary armour consists of aslate-pencil for a spear, a slate for a shield, anda volume of Sir Walter for a bludgeon. Nowand then I have found her sitting alone in thearbour with the drooping air of Lucy Ashtonbeside the fountain ; and she would be betterpleased if I met her clandestinely there incloak and plume with the deadly complexionof Ravenswood. The other day I caught her toiling at some-thing, and she admitted being at work on a poemwhich would be about half as long as the Layof the Last Minstrel. She read me the open-ing lines, after that bland habit of young writ-ers ; an
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