Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character And Scenery 2
Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character And Scenery 2
Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855
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The common duration of a fit was about a month or six weeks^ sometimes more, sometimes less, as one love-wedge drove out another ; but generalljthe *^ decline and fall" of these attach- ments (I believe that is the phrase) began at the month's end. It was astonishing how well these little dramas were gotten up : anj body not in the secret would have thought her really a tender inamorata, she had so many pretty sen- timentalities, would wear nothing but the favourite's favourite colour, or sigh ...out her soul over his favourite song, or hoard his notes or visiting tickets in her bosom. One of her vaga- ries cost me a bad cold. The reigning swain happened to be a German count, who, talking somewhat fantastically of the stars, expressed a sort of superstitious devotion to the beau- tiful constellation Orion ; he could not sleep, he said, tiU he had gazed on it. Now, our luckless damsel took this for a sort of covert assignation, a tender rendezvous of looks and thoughts, like the famous story of the two lovers in the Spec- tator ; and the sky prospect from her apartment being rather limited, she used, to my unspeakable annoyance, to come star- gazing to mine.
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