I did not intend it, and have
only one thing more to say--if you do not go immediately to the sea,
will you come to see us at Haworth? This invitation is not mine only,
but papa's and aunt's."
However, a little more patience, a little more delay, and she enjoyed the
pleasure she had wished for so much. She and her friend went to Easton
for a fortnight in the latter part of September. It was here she
received her first impressions of the sea.
"Oct. 24th.
"Have you forgotten the sea by this time, E.? Is it grown dim in your
mind? Or can you still see it, dark, blue, and green, and foam-white,
and hear it roaring roughly when the wind is high, or rushing softly
when it is calm? . . . I am as well as need be, and very fat. I think
of Easton very often, and of worthy Mr. H., and his kind-hearted
helpmate, and of our pleasant walks to H--- Wood, and to Boynton, our
merry evenings, our romps with little Hancheon, &c., &c. If we both
live, this period of our lives will long be a theme for pleasant
recollection. Did you chance, in your letter to Mr. H., to mention my
spectacles? I am sadly inconvenienced by the want of them. I can
neither read, write, nor draw with comfort in their absence. I hope
Madame won't refuse to give them up .
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