Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE IMPROMPTU. Our hero examined the scrap to convince himself of its authen-ticity, which he acknoAvledged by immediately tearing it up. Ob-serving, however, that Minnie had secured his verses in that charm-ing receptacle where a lady hides whatever she thinks too pre-cious to be trusted in her pockets or work-basket, and consoledthat they had thus reached their destination, he bore the laughwith reasonable fortitude. Repeating a harmless line from Martial, ^?Risu ine^oto re
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE IMPROMPTU. Our hero examined the scrap to convince himself of its authen-ticity, which he acknoAvledged by immediately tearing it up. Ob-serving, however, that Minnie had secured his verses in that charm-ing receptacle where a lady hides whatever she thinks too pre-cious to be trusted in her pockets or work-basket, and consoledthat they had thus reached their destination, he bore the laughwith reasonable fortitude. Repeating a harmless line from Martial, ^?Risu ine^oto res inep-tior nulla est, our author turned liis back on the pests, and, start-ing up the road at a rapid pace, was soon out of sight. It was near sunset before the carriage overtook him. He was •212 PORTE CRAYON AND HIS COUSINS. then standing, ^vitli folded arms, absorbed in the contemplationof a view which was presented for the first time through a vistain the forest. To the right of the road, and at an immense dis-tance below, appeared a champaign country, stretching away inendless perspective, the line of who
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