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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Tuesday,
28th.--
...
We
walked
out
before
dinner
to
our
favourite
field.
The
mists
sailed
along
the
mountains,
and
rested
upon
them,
enclosing
the
whole
vale.
In
the
evening
the
Lloyds
came.
We
played
a
rubber
at
whist....
Wednesday.--William
worked
at
his
poem
all
the
morning.
After
dinner,
Mr.
Clarkson
called....
Played
at
cards....
Mr.
Clarkson
slept
here.
Thursday.--A
rainy
morning.
W.
C.
went
over
Kirkstone.
Wm.
talked
all
day,
and
almost
all
night,
with
Stoddart.
Mrs.
and
Miss
H.
called
in
the
morning.
I
walked
with
them
to
Tail
End.[35]
[Footnote
35:
On
the
western
side
of
Grasmere
Lake.--ED.]
Friday
Night.--
...
W.
and
I
did
not
rise
till
10
o'clock....
A
very
fine
moonlight
night.
The
moon
shone
like
herrings
in
the
water.
Tuesday.--
...
Tremendous
wind.
The
snow
blew
from
Helvellyn
horizontally
like
smoke....
Thursday,
6th
November.--
...
Read
Point
Rash
Judgment....
Friday,
7th
November.--
...
I
working
and
reading
Amelia.
The
Michaelmas
daisy
droops,
the
pansies
are
full
of
flowers,
the
ashes
still
green
all
but
one,
but
they
have
lost
many
of
their
leaves.
The
copses
are
quite
brown.
The
poor
woman
and
child
from
Whitehaven
drank
tea....
Saturday,
8th
November.--A
rainy
morning.
A
whirlwind
came
that
tossed
about
the
leaves,
and
tore
off
the
still
green
leaves
of
the
ashes.
Wm.
and
I
walked
out
at
4
o'clock.
Went
as
far
as
Rothay
Bridge....
The
whole
face
of
the
country
in
a
winter
covering.
Monday.--
...
Jupiter
over
the
hilltops,
the
only
star,
like
a
sun,
flashed
out
at
intervals
from
behind
a
black
cloud.
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