HEADLONG HALL.
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stream, dashing from stone to stone, and overshadowed with these untrimmed boughs.
Miss Tenorina..
The sweet romantic spot! how beautifully the birds must sing there on a summer evening!
Miss Graziosa.
Dear sister! how can you endure the horrid thicket?
Mr. Milestone.
You are right, Miss Graziosa: your taste is correct—perfectly en règle. Now, here is the same place corrected—trimmed—polished—decorated—adorned. Here sweeps a plantation, in that beautiful regular curve: there winds a gravel walk: here are parts of the old wood, left in these majestic circular clumps, disposed at equal distances with wonderful symmetry: there are some single shrubs scattered in elegant profusion: here a Portu-
