" Oh, very well; this confounded rain has hindered me from sketching, " said Will, feeling so happy that he affected indifference with delightful ease.
After this Amy subsided, till a mania for sketching from nature set her to haunting river, field, and wood, for picturesque studies, and sighing for ruins to copy.
What fine times I shall have sketching, studying plants and rocks, and scrambling about the brink of the great valley alone, out of sight and sound of camp!