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The business of the season was heavy and exacting, and its excitement fatiguing, even to the strong; but, like the music of a grand dramatic _scena_, it had its "points of repose," interspersed among the _agitato_ passages which formed the basis of its general construction. Let us hear what our friend, Mrs. Grote, has to tell us about those welcome little _agrémens_.
"The summer of 1847 passed delightfully," she says, in the MS. _Memoir_ from which we have so frequently quoted, "divided, as it was, between theatrical labours and triumphs, and passages of recreation. Among the latter, the most agreeable to her were, repeated visits to our own country home at Burnham, about three miles from Slough, where she essayed riding on horseback; an exercise in which she afterwards came to take so great delight, that she bought a couple of saddle-horses of her own, and rode whenever opportunity permitted.