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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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...