For instance, the age of my child was asked, and the leg knocked four times.

Sarianna was 'not impressed,' she says, but, 'being bound to speak the truth, she does not _think it possible that any trick could have been used_.' To hear her say so was like hearing Mr.Chorley say so; all her prejudices were against it strongly.

Mr.Spicer's book on the subject is flippant and a little vulgar, but the honesty and accuracy of it have been attested to me by Americans oftener than once.
By the way, he speaks in it of your interesting 'Recollections,' and quotes you upon the possibility of making a ghost story better by the telling--in reference to Washington.
Mr.Tennyson is going to England for a few months, so that our Florence party is breaking up, you see.

He has printed a few copies of his poems, and is likely to publish them if he meets with encouragement in England, I suppose.

They are full of imagery, encompassed with poetical atmosphere, and very melodious.