The Patagonia

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I strolled down the hill without meeting a crature, though I could see through the palings of the common that that recreative expanse was peopled with dim forms. I remembered Mrs. Nettlepoint's house-she lived in those days (they are not so distant, but there have been changes) on the water-side, a little way beyond the spot at which the Public Garden terminates; and I reflected that like myself she would be spending the night in Boston if it were true that, as had been mentioned to me a few days before at Mount Desert, she was to embark on the morrow for Liverpool. I presently saw this appear...