Non-Fiction > Books > London, 1887 - Virginibus Puerisque, and other papers

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"D Y a curious irony of fate, the places to
which we are sent when health deserts
us are often singularly beautiful. Often, too,
they are places we have visited in former
years, or seen briefly in passing by, and kept
ever afterwards in pious memory ; and we
please ourselves with the fancy that we shall
repeat many vivid and pleasurable sensations,
and take up again the thread of our enjoy-
ment in the same spirit as we let it fall. We
shall now have an opportunity of finishing
many pleasant excursions, interrupted of yore
before our curiosity was fully satisfied. It
may be that we have kept in mind, during
all these years, the recollection of some valley
into which we have just looked down for a
moment before we lost sight of it in the dis-