The aristocrats

I am on top of a mountain by a lake, with other mountains towering irregularly in all directions; a primeval wilderness, in fact, for every mountain is covered with a dense fore...

I wish you were up here with me, Polly; I am sure you would forget all your troubles. It is such an extraordinary experience to be in a primeval wilderness, where one never hear...

None of the Club people here yet, and if it were not for newspapers and letters--a man in the employ of the Club climbs this perpendicular mountain every evening with the post--...

The people have been here several days now, and the lake looks very gay. When the men are not fishing the boats are filled with the children, ducky little things in white pinnys...

Do not imagine, Polly, that I have given up my solitary ramblings in the forest. I enjoy them more than ever; and their _soundlessness_ after the eternal babble which pervades t...

This afternoon I went over to Mrs. Laurence’s “camp” for tea. She wrote me the most graceful little note with two witticisms in it, and as I had no excuse to offer, I went. Agat...

Mr. Nugent, the all conquering, arranged it, Polly dear, and here I am at a far more beautiful lake than Boulder--which seems tamely pretty in comparison. It is on top of anothe...

First--Last evening at sundown several of us--two in a boat--went out on the lake in the hope of seeing the deer come down to drink. The men paddled, making so little noise and...

I have solved the mystery of Mrs. Opp, and it has been the cause of much thought and speculation on my part. Her father was a German noble, high in favour of his Kaiser some fif...

I am rather put out, and have been so irritable for two days that I hardly know myself. Still, thank heaven, nobody suspects it. I never have been more amiable.

It is eleven o’clock P. M., and I have been in bed and asleep since half-after seven. I foresee myself wide-awake for two hours and giving you an account of the last two days. H...