My Lady Ludlow

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I am an old woman now and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we who travelled travelled in coaches carrying six inside and making a two days' journey out of what people now go over in a couple of hours with a whizz and a flash and a screaming whistle enough to deafen one. Then letters came in but three times a week: indeed in some places in Scotland where I have stayed when I was a girl the post came in but once a month; - but letters were letters then; and we made great prizes of them and read them and studied them like books. Now the post comes rattling in twice a day bringing short jerky notes some without beginning or end but just a little sharp sentence which well-bred folks would think too abrupt to be spoken. Well well! they may all be improvements - I dare say they are; but you will never meet with a Lady Ludlow in these days. I will try and tell you about her. It is no story: it has as I said neither beginning middle nor end.