A love-scene should be laid on such an evening. The trees
and the grass have now the brightest possible green, there having been so
many showers alternating with such powerful sunshine. There are roses
and tulips and honeysuckles, with their sweet perfume; in short, the
splendor of a more gorgeous climate than ours might be brought into the
picture.
The situation of a man in the midst of a crowd, yet as completely in the
power of another, life and all, as if they two were in the deepest
solitude.
Tremont, Boston, June 16th.--Tremendously hot weather to-day. Went on
board the Cyane to see Bridge, the purser. Took boat from the end of
Long Wharf; with two boatmen who had just landed a man. Row round to the
starboard side of the sloop, where we pass up the steps, and are received
by Bridge, who introduces us to one of the lieutenants,--Hazard. Sailors
and midshipmen scattered about,--the middies having a foul anchor, that
is, an anchor with a cable twisted round it, embroidered on the collars
of their jackets. The officers generally wear blue jackets with lace on
the shoulders, white pantaloons, and cloth caps.
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