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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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SECOND
WEEK
Sunday,
August
21st.--The
morning
was
very
hot,
a
morning
to
tempt
us
to
linger
by
the
water-side.
I
wished
to
have
had
the
day
before
us,
expecting
so
much
from
what
William
had
seen;
but
when
we
went
there,
I
did
not
desire
to
stay
longer
than
till
the
hour
which
we
had
prescribed
to
ourselves;
for
it
was
a
rule
not
to
be
broken
in
upon,
that
the
person
who
conducted
us
to
the
Falls
was
to
remain
by
our
side
till
we
chose
to
depart.
We
left
our
inn
immediately
after
breakfast.
The
lanes
were
full
of
people
going
to
church;
many
of
the
middle-aged
women
wore
long
scarlet
cardinals,
and
were
without
hats:
they
brought
to
my
mind
the
women
of
Goslar
as
they
used
to
go
to
church
in
their
silver
or
gold
caps,
with
their
long
cloaks,
black
or
coloured.
The
banks
of
the
Clyde
from
Lanerk
to
the
Falls
rise
immediately
from
the
river;
they
are
lofty
and
steep,
and
covered
with
wood.
The
road
to
the
Falls
is
along
the
top
of
one
of
the
banks,
and
to
the
left
you
have
a
prospect
of
the
open
country,
corn
fields
and
scattered
houses.
To
the
right,
over
the
river,
the
country
spreads
out,
as
it
were,
into
a
plain
covered
over
with
hills,
no
one
hill
much
higher
than
another,
but
hills
all
over;
there
were
endless
pastures
overgrown
with
broom,
and
scattered
trees,
without
hedges
or
fences
of
any
kind,
and
no
distinct
footpaths.
It
was
delightful
to
see
the
lasses
in
gay
dresses
running
like
cattle
among
the
broom,
making
their
way
straight
forward
towards
the
river,
here
and
there
as
it
might
chance.
They
waded
across
the
stream,
and,
when
they
had
reached
the
top
of
the
opposite
bank,
sat
down
by
the
road-side,
about
half
a
mile
from
the
town,
to
put
on
their
shoes
and
cotton
stockings,
which
they
brought
tied
up
in
pocket-handkerchiefs.
The
porter's
lodge
is
about
a
mile
from
Lanerk,
and
the
lady's
house--for
the
whole
belongs
to
a
lady,
whose
name
I
have
forgotten[84]--is
upon
a
hill
at
a
little
distance.
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