ink from a consequence I ought to desire? and yet,
in my secret soul, I do shrink from it. But perhaps it will be easier as
I go on, if it be true that

'Each goodly thing is hardest to begin;
But entered in a spacious court, they see
Both plain, and pleasant to be walked in.'

_Wednesday Morning._--My father happened to cast his eye across the
table as I finished my last page, and he saw a tear fall on it. Throwing
down his cards he said, 'Come, come, children, it's time to go to bed;'
and stooping over me, he kissed me fondly, and murmured: 'Dear, good
child, I can not stand it if I see you unhappy.' He shall not see me so;
I have risen to-day with this resolution.

The rain has been pouring down all night, but at this glorious point of
sight, directly under Mount Washington, we are 'equal to either fate,'
going on or staying.

Mr. Thompson has again surprised us with a delicious breakfast of tender
chickens, light biscuit, excellent bread, fresh eggs, and that rarest of
comforts at a hotel, delicious coffee, with a brimming pitcher of cream.
We wondered at all these domestic comforts, for we have not heard the
flutter of a petticoat in the house till we saw our respectable landlady
in spectacles gliding out of the room. We learned from her that she was
the only womankind on the 'diggings.' Every thing is neatly done, so we
bless our October star for exempting us from the tardy and careless
service of chambermaids. While it rains, we walk on the piazza, enjoying
the beautiful and ever-varying effects of the clouds as they roll down
the mountains, and roll off--like the shadows on our human life, dear
Susan, that God's love does often lift from it.

The Glen-House is on the lowest ridge of the hill that rises opposite to
Mount Washington, which, as its name indicates, stands head and
shoulders above the other summits, having no peer. Madison and Monroe
come next, on the left, and then Jefferson, who appears
(characteristically?) higher than he is. In a line with Mount
Washington, on the other side, are Adams, Clay, etc. These names
(excepting always Washington) do not, with their recent political
associations, seem quite to suit these sublime, eternal mounts, but as
time rolls on, the names will grow to signs of greatness, and harmonize
with physical stability and grandeur. Jefferson's head seems quite
consistently modeled after an European pattern. It runs up to a sharp
point, and wants but accumulated mas