The little girls cry sometimes to
be admitted to that privilege. I dare say Ethel would like very well to
quit her place in the caravan, where she sits, circumvented by mamma's
dogs, and books, bags, dressing-boxes, and gimcrack cases, without which
apparatus some English ladies of condition cannot travel; but Miss Ethel
is grown up, she is out, and has been presented at Court, and is a person
of too great dignity now to sit anywhere but in the place of state in the
chariot corner. I like to think, for my part, of the gallant young fellow
taking his pleasure and enjoying his holiday, and few sights are more
pleasant than to watch a happy, manly English youth, free-handed and
generous-hearted, content and good-humour shining in his honest face,
pleased and pleasing, eager, active, and thankful for services, and
exercising bravely his noble youthful privilege to be happy and to enjoy.
Sing, cheery spirit, whilst the spring lasts; bloom whilst the sun
shines, kindly flowers of youth! You shall be none the worse to-morrow
for having been happy to-day, if the day brings no action to shame it.
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