. In the forest of Arden. The first sensation that comes to ^one who finds himself at last withinthe boundaries of the Forest of Ardenis a delicious sense of freedom. I am ^not sure that there is not a certainsympathy with outlawry in that first iexhilarating consciousness of having ^gotten out of the conventional worlds— the world whose chief purpose isthat all men shall wear the same coat,eat the same dinner, repeat the samepolite commonplaces, and be forgottenat last under the same epitaph. Forestshave been the natural refuge of outlawsfrom the earliest time, and among themost respectable p
. In the forest of Arden. The first sensation that comes to ^one who finds himself at last withinthe boundaries of the Forest of Ardenis a delicious sense of freedom. I am ^not sure that there is not a certainsympathy with outlawry in that first iexhilarating consciousness of having ^gotten out of the conventional worlds— the world whose chief purpose isthat all men shall wear the same coat,eat the same dinner, repeat the samepolite commonplaces, and be forgottenat last under the same epitaph. Forestshave been the natural refuge of outlawsfrom the earliest time, and among themost respectable persons there has al-ways been an ill-concealed liking forRobin Hood and the whole fraternityof the men of the bow. Truth is aboveall things characteristic of the dwellersin Arden, and it must be frankly con-fessed at the beginning, therefore, thatthe Forest is given over entirely to Pft .Tlt TO # 27 w/MJWifiWiiiifmnoMi m mr^i I m WMT )i lff\ ,i, i outlaws; those who have committed [^some grave offence against the worldo
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