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New York Weekly
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v. 21 no. 40
— page 7 |
| Subject / Tag: |
Sketch |
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New York Weekly, v. XXI, no. 40, August 23, 1866 (Issue) |
| Author: |
Graves, Helen Forrest
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| Date: |
August 23, 1866 |
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The lonely old woods surrounding the fashionable watering-places were sleeping in the soft sunshine of the August afternoon-the lake lay blue and placid as a bit of the radiant sky itself taken from the firmament and dropped in among the sweet birches and drooping willows, and the shadows of the old trees on the smoothly rolled lawn made pleasant little oasis of coolness in the vivid brightness, where ladies and children, and gentlemen who were testing the dulce far niente principle, gathered in merry groups. |
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