Just now, he is wild with
floriculture. Last year, it was geology. You will see."
And then, as if he feared to trust himself with his cousin's character,
or that it was a distasteful subject for some reason, he turned to the
minister, and began talking about Cherry Mountain and the scenery in
Cooes.
Mr. Remington called out, at the top of the hill,--
"Now it is my turn! Let me ride, and I will give your character!"
"Oh! we don't need it, I assure you," said I; "we understand him
entirely."
"Not a bit of it!" said he, shaking his brown curls; "I am the
transparent one."
He stepped up on the wheel-hub to get his bag, and to say he should
strike off for Middleton on foot. He would see us very soon in New York,
and claim our promise to visit him.
Being relieved from the fascination of personal beauty and presence,
with only the impression of character remaining, I was a little ashamed
to find how much I had liked, without being at all able to esteem him.
It was with a very different feeling that I looked at Mr.
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