In Kingston the heat is all but intolerable
throughout the year, by day and by night, in the house and out of it.
In the mountains round Newcastle, some four thousand feet above the
sea, it is merely warm during the day, and cool enough at night to
make a blanket desirable.
It is pleasant enough living up amongst those green mountains. There
are no roads there for wheeled carriages, nor are there carriages
with or without wheels. All journeys are made on horseback. Every
visit paid from house to house is performed in this manner. Ladies
young and old live before dinner in their riding-habits. The
hospitality is free, easy, and unembarrassed. The scenery is
magnificent. The tropical foliage is wild and luxuriant beyond
measure. There may be enjoyed all that a southern climate has to
offer of enjoyment, without the penalties which such enjoyments
usually entail.
Mrs. Leslie was a half-sister of Miss Jack, and Miss Jack had been a
half-sister also of Mrs. Cumming; but Mrs. Leslie and Mrs. Cumming
had in no way been related. And it had so happened that up to the
period of his legislative efforts Maurice Cumming had seen nothing of
the Leslies.
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