’ ‘We are not all of us so empty-headed, Melusine,’ pleaded Miss Froxfield. It was high afternoon, there was no great throng of footpassengers, and many an eye from omnibus and pavement rested gratefully on her fresh, trim presence as she passed young and erect, with the light of determination shining through the quiet self-possession of her face. Ah Cum, sensing the difficulty, approached, recovered the damp handkerchief and returned it. Skirting the noble gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,) the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype, in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry, especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place, by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. The island was snake-free. “Flesh and flowers are all alike to me. Not a word had been exchanged between the two boys on the road. "What good would it do you to destroy me? For I have courage to kill myself. Louis the Fourteenth yet lived, and expectations were, therefore, indulged of assistance from France. The peculiar appearance of the sky was not without some influence in awakening these terrors. Flowers, theatre boxes, carriages, the “open sesame” to the whole world of pleasure.
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