It recorded descriptions of the wild moorland scenery, of birds, and ferns, and flowers.

Also there were sketches of the peasantry and of the gentlefolk with whom the writer came in contact; very shrewd and clever, some of them, but with this peculiarity--that they were absolutely free from unkindness of thought or words, though sometimes their author allowed herself the license of a mitigated satire.

Such things, with notes of domestic and parish matters, and of the progress made in her arduous and continual study of vocal and instrumental music, made up the sum of these years of the diary.

Then at length, at the beginning of the last volume, came this entry: "The unexpected has happened, somebody has actually been found in whose eyes this cure of souls is desirable--namely, a certain Mr.Tomley, the rector of a village called Monksland, upon the East Coast of England.

I will sum up the history of the thing.