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Ow cliffs. We encountered no sign of human life. Our conversation I need hardly repeat. I think I may trust it to the keeping of my memory: I think I shall be likely to remember it. It was all very sober and sensible,--such talk as it is both easy and pleasant to remember; it was even prosaic,--or, at least, if there was a vein of poetry in it, I should have defied a listener to put his finger on it. There was no exaltation of feeling or utterance on either side; on one side, indeed, there was very little utterance. Am I wrong in conjecturing, however, that there was considerable feeling of a certain quiet kind? Miss Blunt maintained a rich, golden silence. I, on the other hand, was very voluble. What a sweet, womanly listener she is! * * * * * _September 1st._--I have been working steadily for a week. This is the first day of autumn. Read aloud to Miss Blunt a little Wordsworth. * * * * * _September 10th. Midnight._--Worked without interruption,--until yesterday, inclusive, that is. But with the day now closing--or opening--begins a new era. My poor vapid old diary, at last you shall hold a _fact_. For three days past we have been having damp, chilly weather. Dusk has fallen early This evening, after tea, the Captain went into town,--on business, as he said: I believe, to attend some Poorhouse or Hospital Board. Esther and I went into the parlor. The room seemed cold. She brought in lamp from the dining-room, and proposed we should have a little fire. I went into the kitchen, procured an armful of wood, and while she drew the curtains and wheeled up the table, I kindled a lively, crackling blaze. A fortnight ago she would not have allowed me to do this without a protest. She would not have offered to do it herself,--not she!--but she would have said that I was not here to serve,
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