. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. curls were parted, having a deeplypeacefully contemplative expression. She was a frequent vis-itor at Governor Gerrys, where she found hooks to feed, if notto satisfy, her cravings. Owing to changes of residence, hereducation was indifferent; but her mind tended most naturallyto the beautiful, music and drawing superseding the multipli-cation-table. When she was about fifteen she walked, everyweek, four miles to Boston, to take lessons in French. 326 HlSTOKia FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX. CHAPTEE XV. MOUNT AUBURN TO NONANTUM BRIDGE. Crowii me wi
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. curls were parted, having a deeplypeacefully contemplative expression. She was a frequent vis-itor at Governor Gerrys, where she found hooks to feed, if notto satisfy, her cravings. Owing to changes of residence, hereducation was indifferent; but her mind tended most naturallyto the beautiful, music and drawing superseding the multipli-cation-table. When she was about fifteen she walked, everyweek, four miles to Boston, to take lessons in French. 326 HlSTOKia FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX. CHAPTEE XV. MOUNT AUBURN TO NONANTUM BRIDGE. Crowii me with flowers, intoxicate me with perfumes, let me die to thesounds of delicious music. — Dying words of Mirabeau. IT would be curious to analyze the feelings with which adozen different individuals approach a rural repulsion is uppermost in tlie minds of the greaternumber, for death and the grave are but sombre subjects at thebest, and few are willingly brought in contact with the outwardsymbols of the Kini:; of ENTRANCE TO MOUNT AUBURN. Much of the aversion to graveyards which is felt by ourcountry people may be attributed to the hideous and fantasticemblems which are sculptured on our ancestors headstones. MOUNT AUBURN TO NONANTUM BRIDGE. 327 The deaths-head, cross-bones, and hour-glass are but little em-ployed by modern art. We are making our cemeteries attrac-tive, and — shall we confess it 1 — that rivalry displayed alongthe splendid avenues of the living city tinds expression in thehabitations of the dead. The city of the dead has much in common witli its bustlingneighbor. It has its streets, lanes, and alleys, its aristocraticquarter, and its sequestered nooks where the lowlier sleep aswell as they that bear-the burden of some splendid has its ordinances, but they are for the living. Here wemay end the comparison. Statesmen who in life were atenmity lie as quietly here as do those giants who are entombedin Westminster Abbey w
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