What circumstances led to the accomplishment of a destiny apparently so strange for the family of a Devonshire farmer, I never heard.

The clergyman and his sisters were all much my seniors.
After the expeditious ceremony we all--about half a score of us--went off to breakfast at the house of Mr.Garrow in the Piazza di Santa Maria Novella, and before noon my wife and I were off on a ramble among the Tuscan cities..