Brearley School - Brearley Book Yearbook (New York, NY)

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TI-IL OLD I-IOL SI The old house stood bx the sea, lts lxx coxered walls rnsmg, aboxe the dunes I remember dlstmctlx lts blue graxel drlxexx axs brlght green lawns and pr1xet hedges and the xx h1te gateposts xx1th the1r llttle lamps on top I remember the large, a1rx rooms, the eool dark cellar where stores of apples, rxce sugar, cereals and coffee were kept the wide hot kltchen wlth nts great black stoxe and steam mg, pots the brlght laundrx and nts Sllllilflg tubs and YVIIIKC lI'OHll'1g boards the llght pantrx xx here rovxs of old Dres den chma xxere kept ID clean papered cupboards On the enclosed porch stood w1cker chalrs, and ln one corner was slung up an old red hammock where I used to l1e and read In the corners stood boxxls of flowers and tall palm trees fluttexed 1n the stlrrlng., sea breeze I ean remember the old boardxx alk vxnth the shoots of 1nd the Ilded xx ooelen blth house nn the dunes But best of all I remember and otten fI'llUIx of the restless blue green sea and 1ts xx hltecaps and xelloxx foam and great breakers IIS schools of fun IOXIHQ porpolses and xxhlte breisted seagulls ml tor all I knoxx the old house stlll stands xxlth onlx the monotonous :hx thmleal belt ol the xx axes 1 unst the shole md the erx of the SVNLLPIIIQ eull to break the sllenee N xxex Plxekt Cl9'S5 SS - , . I I 7 ' m 1- 1 x 2 I ' v ' 'X I 71 V ' ' ll . Yl I , v - -w 1 Y . I 7. 1. - 1 1 ,s I v v I . X, ' I L' X 'A J x l I I . w 1 x ,, . , 1 I . , I I - I ' 1 x 1 V - x 7 f . V ' - - A . Y 'Q ' l'l I I I I 1 I ' N I . x X L It I ,I x - .I A grass creeping through the cracks between the boards: x w -- I w I-11 - ll 'I I ' Y I 3 'I Y Y I 1 - I - - l - Y' y I 1 v I 1- , . ,' , , . . v ' - ,, A , r - x- I gy' I - I - 1 I I - 1 m rum I v Y L ,' ,Y ,. v 1 .Y N ' - 1 1

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CHARI hS I ANIB limb d1d not make enough noist to haxe been Lon sidered great during ITIS own lite but we ham time 011 our side I11 those of his ltttus xx h1th I hue rtad I see .1 person dtl13,ht1na, Ill httiarx gossip and d1seuss1on, and sxmpathetieallx interested in the affzurs of his friends That he had such fI'1CI'ldS as Coleridge and XX ordsworth shows than he vs as a person of charm, and in his lette1s this charm is not tht cultixated sort but is spontaneous, and therefore more wmning Because of hlS duotion to l11s sister, i'llS lift, compared to others of more divers unconseiouslx so, because one fttls that he hxei intensely His essaxs were not tht Lonelusions ot Z1 looktr OI1, but the reflections of a thoughtful t11ttrta111111g personality Tht LLI'llll disposition that ht tonxtxs Ill his lttttrs and tssus is so LOHIIQIOLIS th1t it sttms to 111t to bt 111 lrgu ment 101 simpheitx ll1 all vsiiting IN C114 14 1 4 1 X I ' A V-l, I 'X . I 1. K-1 ' 1 1-k- r 4- s v 141' ks 1 ' 1' 1 rf - 1 - 1 i . 1 v- ' - ' 1 i r I 1 I ts 1 I I I 2 i . J S activities, was that of a spectator. But he was perhaps -' ' Y ' 'f H X il ' 1 I Y f . h I V I 5 1 ' I 1 1 A ' I 'I' ' . 7 1 v1 i, '. ' ' , 1 - V1 v i A 1 1 - i'iNlI ' ' 11111.

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