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The world is too much with us. / --Wordsworth.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzhenry's morning task was to read the newspapers-- the only intercourse she held with the world, and all her knowledge of it, was derived from these daily sheets. Ethel never looked at them-- her thoughts held no communion with the vulgar routine of life, and she was too much occupied by her studies and reveries to spend any time upon topics so uninteresting as the state of the nation, or the scandal of the day.