Read it through once

William Howitt paid his tribute in a delightful account of his visit which appeared in the _Athenæum_ of August of that same year. It was entitled, _A Visit to our Village_, and, although Miss Mitford thought the praise was overdone, she yet hoped her old friend, Sir William Elford, would read it:—“It is at once so pretty and so kind; the praise does not describe me as I am, because I fall far short of the picture; but it is just how I should wish to be—and how very seldom does that happen!”