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"I'll carry thee In sorrow's arms to welcome Misery. " HEYWOOD's Duchess of Sufolk. "Who's here besides foul weather? " SHAKSPEARE Lear.
The sun was as bright and the sky as calm during the journey of the orphans as in the last. They avoided, as before, the main roads, and their way lay through landscapes that might have charmed a Gainsborough's eye. Autumn scattered its last hues of gold over the various foliage, and the poppy glowed from the hedges, and the wild convolvuli, here and there, still gleamed on the wayside with a parting smile.