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Title: Midsummer Eve : a fairy tale of loving and being loved
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800-1881
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Publisher: London : J. C. Hotten
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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■some gaunt and high-backed, others both grotesque E 26 MIDSUMMER EVE and clumsy ; of coarse, it contained a dresser, garnished by more * crockeryand pewter than Isurse Kitty cared to keep in order; a settle, alosset, and wheels for spinning both flax and wool; and a deepchimney—a perfect cavern of blackness, even when the fire burnedbrightest—made mirthful in winter by the merriest of crickets. A door,it will be remembered, opened from the kitclien into the chamber wherethe sweet subject of Fairy contest and Fairy care had drawn her firstbreath of life. In a small parlour at the opposite end of the dwcllinjishe received the name of Eva. Before I tell how swiftly time flew—wliat it created and destroyed—what it mended and tattered—I mustdescribe, briefly, the up-and-down, half-rustic, half-ornee habitation,where her childhood was passing. Dovkcote certainly did not turn
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its silver lining to the crowd ; the road view of the cottage was scarcelymore than a mass of white wall and l>rown thateh ; but thoso who wereadmitted within, and inlialed the perfume of its delicious garden,wondered wliat magic had been exercised to make so humble a place A FAIRY TALE OF LOVE. 2: a very paradise of beauty. There was a strange mingling of architecturalincongruities about it. The window of the sitting-room might have beencalled an oriel; it was laced with stained glass, and overhung by woodbineand clematis, where the butterfly, and that gigantic beauty of Kerry—thegreat dragon-fly—sported from sunrise to sunset. Next to this, a littlesquare lattice peeped forth, plain and unadorned, save by the white curtainwithin ; and beyond that was a porch—a perfect bower of climbing roses.At the other end was the ordinary kitchen-window, beside which Randywas generally found seated—so much did he delight in watching the sprayof the Tore waterfall, that gleamed above th

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