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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
193
The
view
from
the
windows
was
pleasing,
though
some
travellers
might
have
been
disposed
to
quarrel
with
it
for
its
general
nakedness;
yet
there
was
abundance
of
corn.
It
is
an
open
country--open,
yet
all
over
hills.
At
a
little
distance
were
many
cottages
among
trees,
that
looked
very
pretty.
Brownhill
is
about
seven
or
eight
miles
from
Ellisland.
I
fancied
to
myself,
while
I
was
sitting
in
the
parlour,
that
Burns
might
have
caroused
there,
for
most
likely
his
rounds
extended
so
far,
and
this
thought
gave
a
melancholy
interest
to
the
smoky
walls.
It
was
as
pretty
a
room
as
a
thoroughly
dirty
one
could
be--a
square
parlour
painted
green,
but
so
covered
over
with
smoke
and
dirt
that
it
looked
not
unlike
green
seen
through
black
gauze.
There
were
three
windows,
looking
three
ways,
a
buffet
ornamented
with
tea-cups,
a
superfine
largeish
looking-glass
with
gilt
ornaments
spreading
far
and
wide,
the
glass
spotted
with
dirt,
some
ordinary
alehouse
pictures,
and
above
the
chimney-piece
a
print
in
a
much
better
style--as
William
guessed,
taken
from
a
painting
by
Sir
Joshua
Reynolds--of
some
lady
of
quality,
in
the
character
of
Euphrosyne.
"Ay,"
said
the
servant-girl,
seeing
that
we
looked
at
it,
"there's
many
travellers
would
give
a
deal
for
that,
it's
more
admired
than
any
in
the
house."
We
could
not
but
smile;
for
the
rest
were
such
as
may
be
found
in
the
basket
of
any
Italian
image
and
picture
hawker.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
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Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
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