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wards trying to imagine myself a resident of London, with its
ever-varying sights to attract the eye, and its busy noise to
gratify the industrious ear and break the monotony of an uneventful
life. CHAPTER III. I Think I have never described my home and my
father; and as they are of concern to the present, it is eminently
fitting that I devote one of my chapters to a description of them.
First, papa is as fine a looking man as one would pick out of five
hundred who tread the streets of great cities. I do not trust alone
to my own bias when I say this, for many others have told me so.
And as for his mind, it must be a well-filled store-house, else the
rector, with his every Sabbath afternoon visit to Loch Severn,
would have long since exhausted its intellectual resources. Indeed,
for the past fourteen years, as far back as I can go in memory,
Doctor Martyn, the rector, has passed his Sabbath afternoons
regularly with papa, coming in at the little garden gate
immediately after luncheon, and remaining to tea; and this mutual
interchange of views upon all subjects could not fail to be of
profit to both of them. Loch Severn is built after the Elizabethan
plan, with large, airy rooms and wide window-seats, with scarce a
window in its whole structure but that one might say of it who sat
therein, "What perfect scenery what a restful, winsome nook " We
had no portrait-gallery, for our ancestry was neithernumerous nor
conspicuous on my father's side. And on my mother's?well, into that
sacred and charmed circle of knights and baronets neither my papa
nor myself ever dared to intrude; nor, indeed, had we any
disposition to do so. Mamma, my beautiful, angel mamma, ran off and
married papa, and that is how they came to get married; for had old
Dudley Montague appeared on the sc...
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