Holt Elements of Literature: Language Handbook Worksheets: Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Fifth Course, American Literature

We are to make acquaintance with some serious damsels as this English generation knows them and at a season verging upon May. The ladies of Brookfield Arabella Cornelia and Adela Pole daughters of a flourishing City-of-London merchant had been told of a singular thing: that in the neighbouring fir-wood a voice was to be heard by night so wonderfully sweet and richly toned that it required their strong sense to correct strange imaginings concerning it.