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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...it last, having gone back from a gingerbread gothic house to the appearance of an ancient building. The drawing-room is beautiful, with its ceiling and ornaments copied from that at Winton. Another, 'the Labyrinth Room, 'is from an old palace at Mantua. Lord Durham was drilling his volunteer corps before the castle, and a mock siege was got up, with a storming of the new bridge over the dene. Then we walked to a new lodge which is building. All around are improvements--church restored, schools built, cottages renewed, gardens made, and then the castle. Nov. 6, Evening.--The hard frost last night preluded a bright, beautiful day. Lady Waterford let me have the pony-carriage with two white ponies to go where I liked, and I went to a ruined peel at Howtell Grange, and then through the hollows in the Cheviots to Kirknewton, where Paulinus baptized his Northumbrian converts. 'Oh! if my Lady were only here, for it is quite lovely, ' exclaimed the coachman, as he turned the corner of the mountains. He told me about Lord Waterford's death, how he was riding by his side over the mountain, when his horse stumbled. He got up safely, and then suddenly overbalanced himself, and falling heavily on his head, broke his neck. Lady Waterford cannot bear a horse now: she has only this little pony-carriage. This afternoon I have been with her to the school. She is covering it with large pictures, which have the effect of frescoes. All the subjects are Bible incidents from the lives of good children: in the first, of Cain and Abel, the devout Abel is earnestly offering his sacrifice of the lamb, while careless Cain, attracted by the flight of some pigeons, looks away and lets his apples fall from the altar. All the children are village portraits, and it wa...

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