[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER VII 3/30
My sakes, the vardure here is so deep, it looks like mournin'; it's actilly dismal.
Then there's no water to give light to the pictur, and no sun to cheer it; and the hedges are all square; and the lime trees are as stiff as an old gall that was once pretty, and has grow'd proud on the memory of it. "I don't like their landscape a bit, there ain't no natur in it.
Oh! if you go, take him along with you, for he will put you in consait of all you see, except reform, dissent, and things o' that kind; for he is an out and out old Tory, and thinks nothin' can be changed here for the better, except them that don't agree with him. "He was a warnin' you t'other day not to take all I said for Gospel about society here; but you'll see who's right and who's wrong afore you've done, I know.
I described to you, when you returned from Germany, _Dinin' out_ to London.
Now I'll give you my opinion of "Life in the Country." And fust of all, as I was a sayin', there is no such thing as natur' here.
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