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Cleveland was a spacious,lawn It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the saree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer alk, a road of s round a plantation, led to the front, the laas dotted over with tiuardianship of the fir, the ether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices

Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with ehty na; and before she had been fiveCharlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant e over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that froht be seen

In such moments of precious, invaluable ony to be at Cleveland; and as she returned by a different circuit to the house, feeling all the happy privilege of country liberty, of wandering from place to place in free and luxurious solitude, she resolved to spend almost every hour of every day while she reence of such solitary rambles

She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through itswas easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, exaardener's lareen-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte,--and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy- stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a pro brood, she found fresh sources ofwas fine and dry, and Marianne, in her plan of ee of weather during their stay at Cleveland With great surprise therefore, did she find herself prevented by a settled rain froht walk to the Grecian te merely cold or damp would not have deterred her from it; but a heavy and settled rain even SHE could not fancy dry or pleasant weather for walking