uch a gravel terrace before it as the one we
walked up and down together; and the very same sea, dark,
neutral-tinted, with its frothing edge of white, as if it was foaming at
the mouth in a black convulsion, that your eyes look upon from your
window. It is in some respects exactly like St. Leonard's, and again as
much the reverse as sad loneliness is to loving and delightful
companionship.

I have a sort of lost-child feeling whenever I go to a strange place,
that very few people who know me would give me credit for; but that's
because they don't know me.

God bless you, dear. Kiss dear Dorothy for me.

I am ever yours,
FANNY.

YARMOUTH, 22d.

My very dear and most sententious friend, I never _do_ run the time of
my departure for railroad trains "to the chances of free streets and
fast-driving cabmen;" I always allow amply for all accidents, as I have
a greater horror of being hurried and jostled even than of being too
late. But my driver, the day I left town, was, I think, inexperienced
as well as sulky. He was very young, and though I was too ignorant of
city localities to direct him positively, my recollection of the route
which I had traversed before seemed to me to indicate that he did not
take the most direct way.

You ask me what I think of E----'s note, and if it seems "wonderfully
aristocratic" to me. Aristocratic after the English fashion, which,
thank God, is far from being a very genuine fashion--their "airs" being
for the most part _adulterated_ by the good, sound, practical common
sense of the race, as their blood is _polluted_ with the wholesome,
vigorous, handsome, intelligent vital fluid of the classes below them.
No real aristocrat would have mentioned Miss ----'s maiden name as if
she was a woman of family--(_nee_--_geborne_; that was a delightful
German woman who said she wasn't _geborne_ at all)--for Miss ----, being
only a banker's daughter, was, of course "nobody."

The real aristocratic principle is not--I say again, thank God!--often
to be found among us islanders of Britain. In Austria, where the
Countess Z---- and the Princess E---- are looked upon as the earth under
the feet of the Vienna nobility, the one being Lord S----'s daughter and
the other Lord J----'s, they have a better notion of the principle of
the question. There were o