But, indeed, there is a wonderful deal of natural beauty lying in untouched sweetness near London.

Near one of our cities it would all have been grabbed up the first thing.

But we, too, are beginning to grow wiser.
At Richmond I went to see another lady of more than threescore years' celebrity, more than fourscore in age, Miss Berry the friend of Horace Walpole, and for her charms of manner and conversation long and still a reigning power.

She has still the vivacity, the careless nature, or refined art, that made her please so much in earlier days,--still is girlish, and gracefully so.

Verily, with her was no sign of labor or sorrow.
From the older turning to the young, I must speak with pleasure of several girls I know in London, who are devoting themselves to painting as a profession.