It was really very sad, and I cried a great deal over it.

I am looking out now for a journal which likes melancholy things to send it to.

I have not ventured to submit it to Miss Egerton, for she is so dreadfully severe, and I don't think much of her taste.

She will never praise anything I do unless it is so simple as to be almost babyish.
Now 'The Uses of Adversity' is as far as possible formed on the model of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'-- it is strong, but gloomy.

Shall I read it to you after supper, Primrose ?" "If you like, dear," answered Primrose; "but why do you try to write such very sad things, Jasmine ?" "Oh, I don't know; they suit me.