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As we drove along, ain, and I turned, with pleasure, to the conteh it was not far past thenorth-easterly wind combined to render the day extre one, for, as Smith observed, the roads were 'very heavy'; and certainly, his horse was very heavy too: it crawled up the hills, and crept down them, and only condescended to shake its sides in a trot where the road was at a dead level or a very gentle slope, which was rarely the case in those rugged regions; so that it was nearly one o'clock before we reached the place of our destination Yet, after all, e entered the lofty iron gatee drove softly up the sreen lawn on each side, studded with young trees, and approached the new but stately roves, my heart failed me, and I wished it were a mile or two farther off For the first ti now I e inhabitants But hoas it to be done? True, I was near nineteen; but, thanks tocare of irl of fifteen, or under, was gifted with a reater ease and self-possession, than I was Yet, if Mrs Blooht do very well, after all; and the children, of course, I should soon be at ease with them--and Mr Bloomfield, I hoped, I should have but little to do with

'Be calm, be calm, whatever happens,' I said within myself; and truly I kept this resolution so well, and was so fully occupied in steadyingthe rebellious flutter of my heart, that when I was admitted into the hall and ushered into the presence of Mrs Blooot to answer her polite salutation; and it afterwards struck me, that the little I did say was spoken in the tone of one half-dead or half-asleep The lady, too, was somewhat chilly in her manner, as I discovered when I had time to reflect She was a tall, spare, stately worey eyes, and extremely sallow complexion

With due politeness, however, she showed me my bedroom, and left me there to take a little refresh in the glass: the cold wind had swelled and reddened led my hair, and dyed my face of a pale purple; add to this my collar was horridly crumpled, my frock splashed with mud, my feet clad in stout new boots, and as the trunks were not brought up, there was no re smoothed my hair as well as I could, and repeatedly twitched hts of stairs, philosophizing as I went; and with some difficulty found my way into the room where Mrs Bloomfield awaited me