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THE GREAT ASSEMBLY AT LAKELANDS.
Round the neighbourhood of Lakelands it was known that the day of the great gathering there had been authoritatively foretold as fine, by Mr.Victor Radnor; and he delivered his prophecy in the teeth of the South-western gale familiar to our yachting month; and he really inspired belief or a kind of trust; some supposing him to draw from reserves of observation, some choosing to confide in the singularly winged sparkle of his eyes.

Lady Rodwell Blachington did; and young Mrs.
Blathenoy; and Mrs.Fanning; they were enamoured of it.

And when women stand for Hope, and any worshipped man for Promise, nothing less than redoubled confusion of him dissolves the union.

Even then they cling to it, under an ejaculation, that it might and should have been otherwise; fancy partly has it otherwise, in her caerulean home above the weeping.
So it is good at all points to prophecy with the aspect of the radiant day foretold.
A storm, bearing battle overhead, tore the night to pieces.