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The 31st of January was a wild, te north wind, with a continual storh the air My friends would have hadainst me by such want of punctuality at the co the appointment

I will not inflict uponho, long journey to O---, the solitary waitings in inns for coaches or trains--for there were so at O--- with Mr Murray's servant, who had been sent with the phaeton to drive e I will just state that the heavy snow had thrown such iines, that it was dark some hours before I reachedstorm came on at last, whichand forned, with the cold, sharp snow drifting throughhow the unfortunate horse and driver could make their way even as well as they did; and indeed it was but a toilsoression, to say the best of it At length we paused; and, at the call of the driver, soes what appeared to be the park gates Then we proceeded along a se, hoary h the darkness, which I took to be a portion of a snow-clad tree After a considerable tie house with long s descending to the ground

I rose with some difficulty frohted fro that a kind and hospitable reception would indeentleman person in black opened the door, and adhted by an a; he ledthe door of a back room, toldladies and two young gentle, the elder girl, as trifling over a piece of canvas and a basket of Gero upstairs I replied in the affirmative, of course