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The Solitary Summer
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Elizabeth Von Arnim
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And
here
I
feel
constrained
to
inquire
sternly
who
I
am
that
I
should
talk
in
this
unbecoming
manner
of
Carlyle?
To
which
I
reply
that
I
am
only
a
humble
German
seeking
after
peace,
devoid
of
the
least
real
desire
to
criticise
anybody,
and
merely
anxious
to
get
out
of
the
way
of
geniuses
when
they
make
too
much
noise.
All
I
want
is
to
read
quietly
the
books
that
I
at
present
prefer.
Carlyle
is
shut
up
now
and
therefore
silent
on
his
comfortable
shelf;
yet
who
knows
but
what
in
my
old
age,
when
I
begin
to
feel
really
young,
I
may
not
once
again
find
comfort
in
him?
What
a
medley
of
books
there
is
round
my
pillar!
Here
is
Jane
Austen
leaning
against
Heine--what
would
she
have
said
to
that,
I
wonder?--with
Miss
Mitford
and
Cranford
to
keep
her
in
countenance
on
her
other
side.
Here
is
my
Goethe,
one
of
many
editions
I
have
of
him,
the
one
that
has
made
the
acquaintance
of
the
ice-house
and
the
poppies.
Here
are
Ruskin,
Lubbock,
White's
Selborne,
Izaak
Walton,
Drummond,
Herbert
Spencer
(only
as
much
of
him
as
I
hope
I
understand
and
am
afraid
I
do
not),
Walter
Pater,
Matthew
Arnold,
Thoreau,
Lewis
Carroll,
Oliver
Wendell
Holmes,
Hawthorne,
Wuthering
Heights,
Lamb's
Essays,
Johnson's
Lives,
Marcus
Aurelius,
Montaigne,
Gibbon,
the
immortal
Pepys,
the
egregious
Boswell,
various
American
children's
books
that
I
loved
as
a
child
and
read
and
love
to
this
day;
various
French
children's
books,
loved
for
the
same
reason;
whole
rows
of
German
children's
books,
on
which
I
was
brought
up,
with
their
charming
woodcuts
of
quaint
little
children
in
laced
bodices,
and
good
housemothers
cutting
bread
and
butter,
and
descriptions
of
the
atmosphere
of
fearful
innocence
and
pure
religion
and
swift
judgments
and
rewards
in
which
they
lived,
and
how
the
Finger
Gottes
was
impressed
on
everything
that
happened
to
them;
all
the
poets;
most
of
the
dramatists;
and,
I
verily
believe,
every
gardening
book
and
book
about
gardens
that
has
been
published
of
late
years.
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