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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Cathedral Courtship, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
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+Title: A Cathedral Courtship
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+Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
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+A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP
+
+
+
+
+_By the same Author._
+
+  =Penelope's Irish Experiences.= 6s.
+
+  =Penelope's English Experiences.= Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. 6s.
+
+  =Penelope's Experiences in Scotland.= Illustrated by Charles E.
+    Brock. 6s.
+
+  =Timothy's Quest.= Illustrated by Oliver Herford. 2s. 6d.
+
+  =Marm Liza.= 6s.
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+  =Village Watch-Tower.= 3s. 6d.
+
+  =Polly Oliver's Problem.= Illustrated. 3s. 6d.
+
+  =Summer in a Cańon.= Illustrated. 3s. 6d.
+
+  =Birds' Christmas Carol.= Illustrated. 1s. 6d.
+
+  =Story of Patsy.= Illustrated. 1s. 6d.
+
+
+_By Mrs. Wiggin & Miss Nora A. Smith._
+
+  =The Story Hour.= Illustrated. 2s. 6d.
+
+  =Children's Rights.= 5s.
+
+  =Republic of Childhood.= 3 vols. 5s. each.
+
+
+_LONDON: GAY AND BIRD._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: 'Jack! Jack! save me!']
+
+
+
+
+A Cathedral Courtship
+
+
+BY
+Kate Douglas Wiggin
+
+
+_ILLUSTRATED_
+
+BY
+CHARLES E. BROCK
+
+
+
+
+GAY AND BIRD
+22 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND
+LONDON
+
+1901
+
+_All rights reserved_
+
+
+
+
+_Originally published in 1893 with 'Penelope's English Experiences,' and
+reprinted 1893 (twice), 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897._
+
+
+
+
+_PREFACE_
+
+
+_'A Cathedral Courtship' was first published in 1893, appearing in a
+volume with 'Penelope's English Experiences.' In course of time, the
+latter story, finding unexpected favour in the public eyes, left its
+modest companion, and was promoted to a separate existence, with
+pictures and covers of its own. Then something rather curious occurred,
+one of those trifles which serve to make a publisher's life an exciting,
+if not a happy, one. When the 'gentle reader' (bless his or her warm and
+irrational heart!) could no longer buy 'A Cathedral Courtship,' a new
+desire for it sprang into being, and when the demands became
+sufficiently ardent and numerous, it was decided to republish the story,
+with illustrations by Mr. Charles E. Brock, an artist who can be relied
+upon to put new energy into a live tale or resuscitate a dead one.
+
+At this point the author, having presumably grown in knowledge of
+grammar, spelling, and punctuation, was asked to revise the text, and
+being confronted with the printed page, was overcome by the temptation
+to add now and then a sentence, line, or paragraph, while the charming
+shade of Miss Kitty Schuyler perched on every exclamation point, begging
+permission to say a trifle, just a trifle, more.
+
+'You might allow me to explain myself just there,' she coaxed; 'and if
+you have told them all I was supposed to be thinking in Winchester or
+Salisbury or Oxford, why not tell them what I thought in Bath or
+Peterborough or Ely? It was awfully interesting!'
+
+Jack Copley, too, clamoured to be heard still further on the subject of
+his true-love's charms, so the author yielded to this twofold pressure,
+and added a few corroborative details.
+
+The little courtship, running its placid course through sleepy cathedral
+towns, has not been altered in the least by these new pages. It is only
+as if the story-teller, meeting a new pair of interested eyes, had
+almost unconsciously drifted into fresh confidences._
+
+    _KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN._
+
+
+_This is all quite true, and anyway we have said nothing that we are a
+bit ashamed of._
+
+    _KITTY SCHUYLER._
+
+          X
+
+    _JACK COPLEY._
+
+        _Their mark._
+
+
+London, _July, 1901_.
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+                                                                    PAGE
+  'JACK! JACK! SAVE ME!'                                  _Frontispiece_
+
+  'IT WOULD 'ARDLY BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOOSEBERRY-TART, MISS'         11
+
+  I OFFERED IT TO HER WITH DISTINGUISHED GRACE                        27
+
+  I WAS DISCONCERTED AT BEING FOUND IN A DRAMSHOP ALONE               35
+
+  SHE IGNORES THE BABBLE OF CONTEMPORANEOUS LOVERS                    63
+
+  'LOR', MISS!' SAID FARMER HENDRY, 'HE HAVEN'T BEEN PASTURED THERE
+    FOR THREE WEEKS'                                                  93
+
+
+
+
+A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Winchester, _May 28, ----_,
+        The Royal Garden Inn.
+
+
+We are doing the English cathedral towns, Aunt Celia and I. Aunt Celia
+has an intense desire to improve my mind. Papa told her, when we were
+leaving Cedarhurst, that he wouldn't for the world have it too much
+improved, and Aunt Celia remarked that, so far as she could judge, there
+was no immediate danger; with which exchange of hostilities they parted.
+
+We are travelling under the yoke of an iron itinerary, warranted
+neither to bend nor break. It was made out by a young High Church curate
+in New York, and if it were a creed, or a document that had been blessed
+by all the bishops and popes, it could not be more sacred to Aunt Celia.
+She is awfully High Church, and I believe she thinks this tour of the
+cathedrals will give me a taste for ritual and bring me into the true
+fold. Mamma was a Unitarian, and so when she was alive I generally
+attended service at that church. Aunt Celia says it is not a Church;
+that the most you can say for it is that it is a 'belief' rather loosely
+and carelessly formulated. She also says that dear old Dr. Kyle is the
+most dangerous Unitarian she knows, because he has leanings towards
+Christianity.
+
+Long ago, in her youth, Aunt Celia was engaged to a young architect. He,
+with his triangles and T-squares and things, succeeded in making an
+imaginary scale-drawing of her heart (up to that time a virgin forest,
+an unmapped territory), which enabled him to enter in and set up a
+pedestal there, on which he has remained ever since. He has been only a
+memory for many years, to be sure, for he died at the age of twenty-six,
+before he had had time to build anything but a livery stable and a
+country hotel. This is fortunate, on the whole, because Aunt Celia
+thinks he was destined to establish American architecture on a higher
+plane, rid it of its base, time-serving, imitative instincts, and waft
+it to a height where, in the course of centuries, it would have been
+revered and followed by all the nations of the earth.
+
+I went to see the stable, after one of these Miriam-like flights of
+prophecy on the might-have-been. It isn't fair to judge a man's promise
+by one modest performance, and so I shall say nothing, save that I am
+sure it was the charm of the man that won my aunt's affection, not the
+genius of the builder.
+
+This sentiment about architecture and this fondness for the very
+toppingest High Church ritual cause Aunt Celia to look on the English
+cathedrals with solemnity and reverential awe. She has given me a fat
+note-book, with 'Katharine Schuyler' stamped in gold letters on the
+Russia-leather cover, and a lock and key to conceal its youthful
+inanities from the general public. I am not at all the sort of girl who
+makes notes, and I have told her so; but she says that I must at least
+record my passing impressions, if they are ever so trivial and
+commonplace. She also says that one's language gains unconsciously in
+dignity and sobriety by being set down in black and white, and that a
+liberal use of pen and ink will be sure to chasten my extravagances of
+style.
+
+I wanted to go directly from Southampton to London with the Abbotts, our
+ship friends, who left us yesterday. Roderick Abbott and I had had a
+charming time on board ship (more charming than Aunt Celia knows,
+because she was very ill, and her natural powers of chaperoning were
+severely impaired), and the prospect of seeing London sights together
+was not unpleasing; but Roderick Abbott is not in Aunt Celia's
+itinerary, which reads: 'Winchester, Salisbury, Bath, Wells, Gloucester,
+Oxford, London, Ely, Peterborough, Lincoln, York, Durham.' These are the
+cathedrals Aunt Celia's curate chose to visit, and this is the order in
+which he chose to visit them. Canterbury was too far east for him, and
+Exeter was too far west, but he suggests Ripon and Hereford if strength
+and time permit.
+
+Aunt Celia is one of those persons who are born to command, and when
+they are thrown in contact with those who are born to be commanded all
+goes as merry as a marriage bell; otherwise not.
+
+So here we are at Winchester; and I don't mind all the Roderick Abbotts
+in the universe, now that I have seen the Royal Garden Inn, its pretty
+coffee-room opening into the old-fashioned garden, with its borders of
+clove-pinks, its aviaries, and its blossoming horse-chestnuts, great
+towering masses of pink bloom.
+
+Aunt Celia has driven to St. Cross Hospital with Mrs. Benedict, an
+estimable lady tourist whom she 'picked up' _en route_ from Southampton.
+I am tired, and stayed at home. I cannot write letters, because Aunt
+Celia has the guide-books, so I sit by the window in indolent content,
+watching the dear little school laddies, with their short jackets and
+wide white collars; they all look so jolly, and rosy, and clean, and
+kissable. I should like to kiss the chambermaid, too. She has a pink
+print dress, no fringe, thank goodness (it's curious our servants can't
+leave that deformity to the upper classes), but shining brown hair,
+plump figure, soft voice, and a most engaging way of saying 'Yes, miss?
+Anythink more, miss?' I long to ask her to sit down comfortably and be
+English while I study her as a type, but of course I mustn't. Sometimes
+I wish I could retire from the world for a season and do what I like,
+'surrounded by the general comfort of being thought mad.'
+
+An elegant, irreproachable, high-minded model of dignity and reserve has
+just knocked and inquired what we will have for dinner. It is very
+embarrassing to give orders to a person who looks like a Justice of the
+Supreme Court, but I said languidly:
+
+'What would you suggest?'
+
+'How would you like a clear soup, a good spring soup, to begin with,
+miss?'
+
+'Very much.'
+
+'And a bit of turbot next, miss, with anchovy sauce?'
+
+'Yes, turbot, by all means,' I said, my mouth watering at the word.
+
+'And what else, miss? Would you enjoy a young duckling, miss, with new
+potatoes and green peas?'
+
+'Just the thing; and for dessert--' I couldn't think what I ought to
+order next in England, but the high-minded model coughed apologetically,
+and, correcting my language, said:
+
+'I was thinking you might like gooseberry-tart and cream for a sweet,
+miss.'
+
+Oh that I could have vented my New World enthusiasm in a sigh of delight
+as I heard those intoxicating words, heretofore met only in English
+novels!
+
+'Ye--es,' I said hesitatingly, though I was palpitating with joy, 'I
+fancy we should like gooseberry-tart' (here a bright idea entered my
+mind); 'and perhaps, in case my aunt doesn't care for the
+gooseberry-tart, you might bring a lemon-squash, please.'
+
+Now, I had never met a lemon-squash personally, but I had often heard of
+it, and wished to show my familiarity with British culinary art.
+
+'It would 'ardly be a substitute for gooseberry-tart, miss; but shall I
+bring _one_ lemon-squash, miss?'
+
+'Oh, as to that, it doesn't matter,' I said haughtily; 'bring a
+sufficient number for two persons.'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Aunt Celia came home in the highest feather. She had twice been mistaken
+for an Englishwoman. She said she thought that lemon-squash was a
+drink; I thought, of course, it was a pie; but we shall find out at
+dinner, for, as I said, I ordered a sufficient number for two persons,
+and the head-waiter is not a personage who will let Transatlantic
+ignorance remain uninstructed.
+
+At four o'clock we attended evensong at the cathedral. I shall not say
+what I felt when the white-surpliced boy choir entered, winding down
+those vaulted aisles, or when I heard for the first time that intoned
+service, with all its 'witchcraft of harmonic sound.' I sat quite by
+myself in a high carved oak seat, and the hour was passed in a trance of
+serene delight. I do not have many opinions, it is true, but papa says I
+am always strong on sentiments; nevertheless, I shall not attempt to
+tell even what I feel in these new and beautiful experiences, for it has
+been better told a thousand times.
+
+[Illustration: "It would 'ardly be a substitute for gooseberry-tart,
+miss."]
+
+There were a great many people at service, and a large number of
+Americans among them, I should think, though we saw no familiar faces.
+There was one particularly nice young man, who looked like a Bostonian.
+He sat opposite me. He didn't stare--he was too well bred, but when I
+looked the other way he looked at me. Of course, I could feel his eyes;
+anybody can--at least, any girl can; but I attended to every word of the
+service, and was as good as an angel. When the procession had filed out,
+and the last strain of the great organ had rumbled into silence, we went
+on a tour through the cathedral, a heterogeneous band, headed by a
+conscientious old verger, who did his best to enlighten us, and
+succeeded in virtually spoiling my pleasure.
+
+After we had finished (think of 'finishing' a cathedral in an hour or
+two!), Aunt Celia and I, with one or two others, wandered through the
+beautiful close, looking at the exterior from every possible point, and
+coming at last to a certain ruined arch which is very famous. It did not
+strike me as being remarkable. I could make any number of them with a
+pattern without the least effort. But, at any rate, when told by the
+verger to gaze upon the beauties of this wonderful relic and tremble, we
+were obliged to gaze also upon the beauties of the aforesaid nice young
+man, who was sketching it.
+
+As we turned to go away, Aunt Celia dropped her bag. It is one of those
+detestable, all-absorbing, all-devouring, thoroughly respectable, but
+never proud, Boston bags, made of black cloth with leather trimmings,
+'C. Van T.' embroidered on the side, and the top drawn up with stout
+cords which pass over the Boston wrist or arm. As for me, I loathe them,
+and would not for worlds be seen carrying one, though I do slip a great
+many necessaries into Aunt Celia's.
+
+I hastened to pick up the horrid thing, for fear the nice young man
+would feel obliged to do it for me; but, in my indecorous haste, I
+caught hold of the wrong end, and emptied the entire contents on the
+stone flagging. Aunt Celia didn't notice; she had turned with the
+verger, lest she should miss a single word of his inspired testimony. So
+we scrambled up the articles together, the nice young man and I; and oh,
+I hope I may never look upon his face again.
+
+There were prayer-books and guide-books, a Bath bun, a bottle of
+soda-mint tablets, a church calendar, a bit of gray frizz that Aunt
+Celia pins into her cap when she is travelling in damp weather, a
+spectacle-case, a brandy-flask, and a bon-bon-box, which broke and
+scattered cloves and peppermint lozenges. (I hope he guessed Aunt Celia
+is a dyspeptic, and not intemperate!) All this was hopelessly vulgar,
+but I wouldn't have minded anything if there had not been a Duchess
+novel. Of course he thought that it belonged to me. He couldn't have
+known Aunt Celia was carrying it for that accidental Mrs. Benedict, with
+whom she went to St. Cross Hospital.
+
+After scooping the cloves out of the cracks in the stone flagging--and,
+of course, he needn't have done this, unless he had an abnormal sense of
+humour--he handed me the tattered, disreputable-looking copy of 'A
+Modern Circe,' with a bow that wouldn't have disgraced a Chesterfield,
+and then went back to his easel, while I fled after Aunt Celia and her
+verger.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Memoranda: _The Winchester Cathedral has the longest nave. The inside is
+more superb than the outside. Izaak Walton and Jane Austen are buried
+here._
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Winchester, _May 28_,
+        The White Swan.
+
+
+As sure as my name is Jack Copley, I saw the prettiest girl in the world
+to-day--an American, too, or I am greatly mistaken. It was in the
+cathedral, where I have been sketching for several days. I was sitting
+at the end of a bench, at afternoon service, when two ladies entered by
+the side-door. The ancient maiden, evidently the head of the family,
+settled herself devoutly, and the young one stole off by herself to one
+of the old carved seats back of the choir. She was worse than pretty! I
+made a memorandum of her during service, as she sat under the dark
+carved-oak canopy, with this Latin inscription over her head:
+
+  Carlton cum
+  Dolby
+  Letania
+  IX Solidorum
+  Super Flumina
+  Confitebor tibi
+  Duc probati
+
+There ought to be a law against a woman's making a picture of herself,
+unless she is willing to allow an artist to 'fix her' properly in his
+gallery of types.
+
+A black-and-white sketch doesn't give any definite idea of this
+charmer's charms, but sometime I'll fill it in--hair, sweet little hat,
+gown, and eyes, all in golden brown, a cape of tawny sable slipping off
+her arm, a knot of yellow primroses in her girdle, carved-oak
+background, and the afternoon sun coming through a stained-glass window.
+Great Jove! She had a most curious effect on me, that girl! I can't
+explain it--very curious, altogether new, and rather pleasant. When one
+of the choir-boys sang 'Oh for the wings of a dove!' a tear rolled out
+of one of her lovely eyes and down her smooth brown cheek. I would have
+given a large portion of my modest monthly income for the felicity of
+wiping away that teardrop with one of my new handkerchiefs, marked with
+a tremendous 'C' by my pretty sister.
+
+An hour or two later they appeared again--the dragon, who answers to the
+name of 'Aunt Celia,' and the 'nut-brown mayde,' who comes when she is
+called 'Katharine.' I was sketching a ruined arch. The dragon dropped
+her unmistakably Boston bag. I expected to see encyclopędias and Russian
+tracts fall from it, but was disappointed. The 'nut-brown mayde' (who
+has been trained in the way she should go) hastened to pick up the bag
+for fear that I, a stranger, should serve her by doing it. She was
+punished by turning it inside out, and I was rewarded by helping her
+gather together the articles, which were many and ill-assorted. My
+little romance received the first blow when I found that she reads the
+Duchess novels. I think, however, she has the grace to be ashamed of it,
+for she blushed scarlet when I handed her 'A Modern Circe.' I could have
+told her that such a blush on such a cheek would almost atone for not
+being able to read at all, but I refrained. It is vexatious all the
+same, for, though one doesn't expect to find perfection here below, the
+'nut-brown mayde,' externally considered, comes perilously near it.
+After she had gone I discovered a slip of paper which had blown under
+some stones. It proved to be an itinerary. I didn't return it. I thought
+they must know which way they were going; and as this was precisely what
+I wanted to know, I kept it for my own use. She is doing the cathedral
+towns. I am doing the cathedral towns. Happy thought! Why shouldn't we
+do them together--we and Aunt Celia? A fellow whose mother and sister
+are in America must have some feminine society!
+
+I had only ten minutes to catch my train for Salisbury, but I concluded
+to run in and glance at the registers of the principal hotels. Found my
+'nut-brown mayde' at once in the guest-book of the Royal Garden Inn:
+'Miss Celia Van Tyck, Beverly, Mass., U.S.A. Miss Katharine Schuyler,
+New York, U.S.A.' I concluded to stay over another train, ordered
+dinner, and took an altogether indefensible and inconsistent pleasure in
+writing 'John Quincy Copley, Cambridge, Mass.,' directly beneath the
+charmer's autograph.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Salisbury, _June 1_,
+        The White Hart Inn.
+
+
+We left Winchester on the 1.16 train yesterday, and here we are within
+sight of another superb and ancient pile of stone. I wanted so much to
+stop at the Highflyer Inn in Lark Lane, but Aunt Celia said that if we
+were destitute of personal dignity, we at least owed something to our
+ancestors. Aunt Celia has a temperamental distrust of joy as something
+dangerous and ensnaring. She doesn't realize what fun it would be to
+date one's letters from the Highflyer Inn, Lark Lane, even if one were
+obliged to consort with poachers and trippers in order to do it.
+
+Better times are coming, however, for she was in a melting mood last
+evening, and promised me that wherever I can find an inn with a
+picturesque and unusual name, she will stop there, provided it is clean
+and respectable, if I on my part will agree to make regular notes of
+travel in my Russia-leather book. She says that ever since she was my
+age she has asked herself nightly the questions Pythagoras was in the
+habit of using as a nightcap:
+
+  'What have I learned that's worth the knowing?
+  What have I done that's worth the doing?
+  What have I sought I should have shunned,
+  And into what new follies run?'
+
+I asked her why Pythagoras didn't say 'runned' and make a consistent
+rhyme, and she evaded the point by answering that Pythagoras didn't
+write it in English.
+
+We attended service at three. The music was lovely, and there were
+beautiful stained-glass windows by Burne-Jones and Morris. The verger
+(when wound up with a shilling) talked like an electric doll. If that
+nice young man is making a cathedral tour like ourselves, he isn't
+taking our route, for he isn't here. If he has come over for the purpose
+of sketching, he wouldn't stop with one cathedral, unless he is very
+indolent and unambitious, and he doesn't look either of these.
+
+Perhaps he began at the other end, and worked down to Winchester. Yes,
+that must be it, for the _Ems_ sailed yesterday from Southampton. Too
+bad, for he was a distinct addition to the landscape. Why didn't I say,
+when he was picking up the collection of curios in Aunt Celia's bag,
+'You needn't bother about the novel, thank you; it is not mine, and
+anyway it would be of no use to anybody.'
+
+
+        _June 2._
+
+
+We intended to go to Stonehenge this morning, but it rained, so we took
+a 'growler' and went to the Earl of Pembroke's country place to see the
+pictures. Had a delightful morning with the magnificent antiques,
+curios, and portraits. The Van Dyck room is a joy for ever; but one
+really needs a guide or a friend who knows something of art if one would
+understand these things. There were other visitors; nobody who looked
+especially interesting. Don't like Salisbury so well as Winchester.
+Don't know why. We shall drive this afternoon, if it is fair, and go to
+Bath and Wells to-morrow, I am glad to say. Must read Baedeker on the
+Bishop's palace. Oh, dear! if one could only have a good time and not
+try to know anything!
+
+Memoranda: _This cathedral has the highest spire. Remember: Winchester,
+longest nave; Salisbury, highest spire._
+
+_The Lancet style is those curved lines meeting in a rounding or a sharp
+point like this [inverted U shape] /\, and then joined together like
+this \/\/\/, the way they scallop babies' flannel petticoats. Gothic
+looks like triangles meeting together in various spots and joined with
+a beautiful sort of ornamented knobs. I think I recognise Gothic when I
+see it. Then there is Norman, Early English, fully developed Early
+English, Early and Late Perpendicular, Transition, and, for aught I
+know, a lot of others. Aunt Celia can tell them all apart._
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Salisbury, _June 3_,
+        The Red Lion.
+
+
+I went off on a long tramp this afternoon, and coming on a pretty river
+flowing through green meadows, with a fringe of trees on either side, I
+sat down to make a sketch. I heard feminine voices in the vicinity, but
+as these are generally a part of the landscape in the tourist season, I
+paid no special notice. Suddenly a dainty patent-leather shoe floated
+towards me on the surface of the stream. It evidently had just dropped
+in, for it was right side up with care, and was disporting itself most
+merrily. 'Did ever Jove's tree drop such fruit?' I quoted as I fished it
+out on my stick; and just then I heard a distressed voice saying, 'Oh,
+Aunt Celia, I've lost my smart little London shoe. I was sitting in a
+tree taking a pebble out of the heel, when I saw a caterpillar, and I
+dropped it into the river--the shoe, you know, not the caterpillar.'
+
+[Illustration: I offered it to her with distinguished grace]
+
+Hereupon she came in sight, and I witnessed the somewhat unusual
+spectacle of my 'nut-brown mayde' hopping, like a divine stork, on one
+foot, and ever and anon emitting a feminine shriek as the other, clad in
+a delicate silk stocking, came in contact with the ground. I rose
+quickly, and, polishing the patent leather ostentatiously inside and out
+with my handkerchief, I offered it to her with distinguished grace. She
+sat hurriedly down on the ground with as much dignity as possible, and
+then, recognising me as the person who picked up the contents of Aunt
+Celia's bag, she said, dimpling in the most distracting manner (that's
+another thing there ought to be a law against): 'Thank you again; you
+seem to be a sort of knight-errant.'
+
+'Shall I--assist you?' I asked. I might have known that this was going
+too far. Of course I didn't suppose she would let me help her put the
+shoe on, but I thought--upon my soul, I don't know what I thought, for
+she was about a million times prettier to-day than yesterday.
+
+'No, thank you,' she said, with polar frigidity. 'Good-afternoon.' And
+she hopped back to her Aunt Celia without another word.
+
+I don't know how to approach Aunt Celia. She is formidable. By a curious
+accident of feature, for which she is not in the least responsible, she
+always wears an unfortunate expression as of one perceiving some
+offensive odour in the immediate vicinity. This may be a mere accident
+of high birth. It is the kind of nose often seen in the 'first
+families,' and her name betrays the fact that she is of good old
+Knickerbocker origin. We go to Wells to-morrow--at least, I think we do.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Salisbury, _June 3_.
+
+
+I didn't like Salisbury at first, but I find it is the sort of place
+that grows on one the longer one stays in it. I am quite sorry we must
+leave so soon, but Aunt Celia is always in haste to be gone. Bath may be
+interesting, but it is entirely out of the beaten path from here.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Bath, _June 7_,
+        The Best Hotel.
+
+
+I met him at Wells and again this afternoon here. We are always being
+ridiculous, and he is always rescuing us. Aunt Celia never really sees
+him, and thus never recognises him when he appears again, always as the
+flower of chivalry and guardian of ladies in distress. I will never
+again travel abroad without a man, even if I have to hire one from a
+feeble-minded asylum. We work like galley-slaves, Aunt Celia and I,
+finding out about trains and things. Neither of us can understand
+Bradshaw, and I can't even grapple with the lesser intricacies of the
+A B C Railway Guide. The trains, so far as I can see, always arrive
+before they go out, and I can never tell whether to read up the page or
+down. It is certainly very queer that the stupidest man that breathes,
+one that barely escapes idiocy, can disentangle a railway guide when the
+brightest woman fails. Even the boots at the inn in Wells took my book,
+and, rubbing his frightfully dirty finger down the row of puzzling
+figures, found the place in a minute, and said, 'There ye are, miss.' It
+is very humiliating. I suppose there are Bradshaw professorships in the
+English universities, but the boots cannot have imbibed his knowledge
+there. A traveller at _table d'hōte_ dinner yesterday said there are
+three classes of Bradshaw trains in Great Britain: those that depart and
+never arrive, those that arrive but never depart, and those that can be
+caught in transit, going on, like the wheel of eternity, with neither
+beginning nor end. All the time I have left from the study of routes and
+hotels I spend on guide-books. Now, I'm sure that if any one of the men
+I know were here, he could tell me all that is necessary as we walk
+along the streets. I don't say it in a frivolous or sentimental spirit
+in the least, but I do affirm that there is hardly any juncture in life
+where one isn't better off for having a man about. I should never dare
+divulge this to Aunt Celia, for she doesn't think men very nice. She
+excludes them from conversation as if they were indelicate subjects.
+
+But to go on, we were standing at the door of Ye Crowne and Keys at
+Wells, waiting for the fly which we had ordered to take us to the
+station, when who should drive up in a four-wheeler but the flower of
+chivalry. Aunt Celia was saying very audibly, 'We shall certainly miss
+the train, if the man doesn't come at once.'
+
+'Pray take this cab,' said the flower of chivalry. 'I am not leaving for
+an hour or more.'
+
+Aunt Celia got in without a murmur; I sneaked in after her, not daring
+to lift my eyes. I don't think she looked at him, though she did
+vouchsafe the remark that he seemed to be a civil sort of person.
+
+I was walking about by myself this afternoon. Aunt Celia and I had
+taken a long drive, and she had dropped me in a quaint old part of the
+town that I might have a brisk walk home for exercise. Suddenly it began
+to rain, which it is apt to do in England, between the showers, and at
+the same moment I espied a sign, 'Martha Huggins, Licensed Victualler.'
+It was a nice, tidy little shop, with a fire on the hearth and flowers
+in the window, and I thought no one would catch me if I stepped inside
+to chat with Martha until the sun shone again. I fancied it would be
+delightful and Dickensy to talk quietly with a licensed victualler by
+the name of Martha Huggins.
+
+Just after I had settled myself, the flower of chivalry came in and
+ordered ale. I was disconcerted at being found in a dramshop alone, for
+I thought, after the bag episode, he might fancy us a family of
+inebriates. But he didn't evince the slightest astonishment; he merely
+lifted his hat, and walked out after he had finished his ale. He
+certainly has the loveliest manners, and his hair is a more beautiful
+colour every time I see him.
+
+And so it goes on, and we never get any further. I like his politeness
+and his evident feeling that I can't be flirted and talked with like a
+forward boarding-school miss; but I must say I don't think much of his
+ingenuity. Of course one can't have all the virtues, but if I were he, I
+would part with my distinguished air, my charming ease--in fact, almost
+anything, if I could have in exchange a few grains of common-sense, just
+enough to guide me in the practical affairs of life.
+
+[Illustration: "I was disconcerted at being found in a dramshop alone."]
+
+I wonder what he is? He might be an artist, but he doesn't seem quite
+like an artist; or just a dilettante, but he doesn't look in the least
+like a dilettante. Or he might be an architect; I think that is the
+most probable guess of all. Perhaps he is only 'going to be' one of
+these things, for he can't be more than twenty-five or twenty-six.
+Still, he looks as if he were something already; that is, he has a kind
+of self-reliance in his mien--not self-assertion, nor self-esteem, but
+belief in self, as if he were able, and knew that he was able, to
+conquer circumstances.
+
+Aunt Celia wouldn't stay at Ye Olde Bell and Horns here. She looked
+under the bed (which, I insist, was an unfair test), and ordered her
+luggage to be taken instantly to the Grand Pump Room Hotel.
+
+Memoranda: _Bath became distinguished for its architecture and popular
+as a fashionable resort in the 17th century from the deserved repute of
+its waters and through the genius of two men, Wood the architect and
+Beau Nash, Master of Ceremonies. A true picture of the society of the
+period is found in Smollett's 'Humphry Clinker', which Aunt Celia says
+she will read and tell me what is necessary. Remember the window of the
+seven lights in the Abbey Church, the one with the angels ascending and
+descending; also the rich Perp. chantry of Prior Bird, S. of chancel. It
+is Murray who calls it a Perp. chantry, not I._
+
+
+_She_
+
+    _June 8._
+
+
+It was very wet this morning, and I had breakfast in my room. The maid's
+name is Hetty Precious, and I could eat almost anything brought me by
+such a beautifully named person. A little parcel postmarked Bath was on
+my tray, but as the address was printed, I have no clue to the sender.
+It was a wee copy of Jane Austen's 'Persuasion,' which I have read
+before, but was glad to see again, because I had forgotten that the
+scene is partly laid in Bath, and now I can follow dear Anne and vain
+Sir Walter, hateful Elizabeth and scheming Mrs. Clay through Camden
+Place and Bath Street, Union Street, Milsom Street, and the Pump Yard. I
+can even follow them to the site of the White Hart Hotel, where the
+adorable Captain Wentworth wrote the letter to Anne. After more than two
+hundred pages of suspense, with what joy and relief did I read that
+letter! I wonder if Anne herself was any more excited than I?
+
+At first I thought Roderick Abbott sent the book, until I remembered
+that his literary taste is _Puck_ in America and _Pick-me-up_ and
+_Tit-Bits_ in England; and now I don't know what to think. I turned to
+Captain Wentworth's letter in the last chapter but one--oh, it _is_ a
+beautiful letter! I _wish_ somebody would ever write me that he is 'half
+agony, half hope,' and that I 'pierce his soul.' Of course, it would be
+wicked to pierce a soul, and of course they wouldn't write that way
+nowadays; but there is something perfectly delightful about the
+expression.
+
+Well, when I found the place, what do you suppose? Some of the sentences
+in the letter seem to be underlined ever so faintly; so faintly, indeed,
+that I cannot quite decide whether it's my imagination or a lead-pencil,
+but this is the way it seems to look:
+
+'I can listen no longer in silence. [underlined: I must speak to you by
+such means as are within my reach.] You pierce my soul. I am half agony,
+half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings
+are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more
+your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare
+not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier
+death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and
+resentful I have been, but never inconstant. [underlined: You alone have
+brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen
+this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even
+these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must
+have penetrated mine.] I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing
+something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can
+distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others.
+Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice indeed. You do
+believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe
+it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in
+
+    'F. W.'
+
+Of course, this means nothing. Somebody has been reading the book, and
+marked it idly as he (or she) read. I can imagine someone's underlining
+a splendid sentiment like 'Dare not say that man forgets sooner than
+woman!' but why should a reader lay stress on such a simple sentence as
+'You alone brought me to Bath'?
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Gloucester, _June 10,_
+        The Golden Slipper.
+
+
+Nothing accomplished yet. Her aunt is a Van Tyck, and a stiff one, too.
+I am a Copley, and that delays matters. Much depends upon the manner of
+approach. A false move would be fatal. We have seven more towns (as per
+itinerary), and if their thirst for cathedrals isn't slaked when these
+are finished, we have the entire Continent to do. If I could only
+succeed in making an impression on the retina of Aunt Celia's eye!
+Though I have been under her feet for ten days, she never yet has
+observed me. This absent-mindedness of hers serves me ill now, but it
+may prove a blessing later on.
+
+I made two modest moves on the chessboard of Fate yesterday, but they
+were so very modest and mysterious that I almost fear they were never
+noticed.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Gloucester, _June 10_,
+        In Impossible Lodgings chosen by Me.
+
+
+Something else awfully exciting has happened.
+
+When we walked down the railway platform at Bath, I saw a pink placard
+pasted on the window of a first-class carriage. It had 'VAN TYCK:
+RESERVED,' written on it, after the English fashion, and we took our
+places without question. Presently Aunt Celia's eyes and mine alighted
+at the same moment on a bunch of yellow primroses pinned on the stuffed
+back of the most comfortable seat next the window.
+
+'They do things so well in England,' said Aunt Celia admiringly. 'The
+landlord must have sent my name to the guard--you see the advantage of
+stopping at the best hotels, Katharine--but one would not have suspected
+him capable of such a refined attention as the bunch of flowers. You
+must take a few of them, dear; you are so fond of primroses.'
+
+Oh! I am having a delicious time abroad! I do think England is the most
+interesting country in the world; and as for the cathedral towns, how
+can anyone bear to live anywhere else?
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Oxford, _June 12_,
+        The Mitre.
+
+
+It was here in Oxford that a grain of common-sense entered the brain of
+the flower of chivalry; you might call it the dawn of reason. We had
+spent part of the morning in High Street, 'the noblest old street in
+England,' as our dear Hawthorne calls it. As Wordsworth had written a
+sonnet about it, Aunt Celia was armed for the fray--a volume of
+Wordsworth in one hand, and one of Hawthorne in the other. (I wish
+Baedeker and Murray didn't give such full information about what one
+ought to read before one can approach these places in a proper spirit.)
+When we had done High Street, we went to Magdalen College, and sat down
+on a bench in Addison's Walk, where Aunt Celia proceeded to store my
+mind with the principal facts of Addison's career, and his influence on
+the literature of the something or other century. The cramming process
+over, we wandered along, and came upon 'him' sketching a shady corner of
+the walk.
+
+Aunt Celia went up behind him, and, Van Tyck though she is, she could
+not restrain her admiration of his work. I was surprised myself; I
+didn't suppose so good-looking a youth could do such good work. I
+retired to a safe distance, and they chatted together. He offered her
+the sketch; she refused to take advantage of his kindness. He said he
+would 'dash off' another that evening and bring it to our hotel--'so
+glad to do anything for a fellow-countryman,' etc. I peeped from behind
+a tree and saw him give her his card. It was an awful moment; I
+trembled, but she read it with unmistakable approval, and gave him her
+own with an expression that meant, 'Yours is good, but beat that if you
+can!'
+
+She called to me, and I appeared. Mr. John Quincy Copley, Cambridge, was
+presented to her niece, Miss Katharine Schuyler, New York. It was over,
+and a very small thing to take so long about, too.
+
+He is an architect, and, of course, has a smooth path into Aunt Celia's
+affections. Theological students, ministers, missionaries, heroes, and
+martyrs she may distrust, but architects never!
+
+'He is an architect, my dear Katharine, and he is a Copley,' she told me
+afterwards. 'I never knew a Copley who was not respectable, and many of
+them have been more.'
+
+After the introduction was over, Aunt Celia asked him guilelessly if he
+had visited any other of the English cathedrals. Any others,
+indeed!--this to a youth who had been all but in her lap for a
+fortnight. It was a blow, but he rallied bravely, and, with an amused
+look in my direction, replied discreetly that he had visited most of
+them at one time or another. I refused to let him see that I had ever
+noticed him before--that is, particularly.
+
+I wish I had had an opportunity of talking to him of our plans, but just
+as I was leading the conversation into the proper channels, the waiter
+came in for breakfast orders--as if it mattered what one had for
+breakfast, or whether one had any at all. I can understand an interest
+in dinner or even in luncheon, but not in breakfast; at least not when
+more important things are under consideration.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Memoranda: _'The very stones and mortar of this historic town seem
+impregnated with the spirit of restful antiquity.'_ (Extract from one of
+Aunt Celia's letters.) _Among the great men who have studied here are
+the Prince of Wales, Duke of Wellington, Gladstone, Sir Robert Peel, Sir
+Philip Sidney, William Penn, John Locke, the two Wesleys, Ruskin, Ben
+Jonson, and Thomas Otway._ (Look Otway up.)
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Oxford, _June 13_,
+        The Angel.
+
+
+I have done it, and if I hadn't been a fool and a coward I might have
+done it a week ago, and spared myself a good deal of delicious torment.
+'How sweet must be Love's self possessed, when but Love's shadows are so
+rich in joy!' or something of that sort.
+
+I have just given two hours to a sketch of Addison's Walk, and carried
+it to Aunt Celia at the Mitre. Object, to find out whether they make a
+long stay in London (our next point), and, if so, where. It seems they
+stop only a night. I said in the course of conversation:
+
+'So Miss Schuyler is willing to forego a London season? Marvellous
+self-denial!'
+
+'My niece did not come to Europe for a London season,' replied Miss Van
+Tyck. 'We go through London this time merely as a cathedral town,
+simply because it chances to be where it is geographically. We shall
+visit St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, and then go directly on, that
+our chain of impressions may have absolute continuity and be free from
+any disturbing elements.'
+
+Oh, but she is lovely, is Aunt Celia! London a cathedral town!
+
+Now, for my part, I should like to drop St. Paul's for once, and omit
+Westminster Abbey for the moment, and sit on the top of a bus with Miss
+Schuyler or in a hansom jogging up and down Piccadilly. The hansom
+should have bouquets of paper-flowers in the windows, and the horse
+should wear carnations in his headstall, and Miss Schuyler should ask me
+questions, to which I should always know the right answers. This would
+be but a prelude, for I should wish later to ask her questions to which
+I should hope she would also know the right answers.
+
+Heigho! I didn't suppose that anything could be lovelier than that
+girl's smile, but there is, and it is her voice.
+
+I shall call there again to-morrow morning. I don't know on what
+pretext, but I shall call, for my visit was curtailed this evening by
+the entrance of the waiter, who asked what they would have for
+breakfast. Miss Van Tyck said she would be disengaged in a moment, so
+naturally I departed, with a longing to knock the impudent waiter's head
+against the uncomprehending wall. Breakfast indeed! A fellow can
+breakfast regularly, and yet be in a starving condition.
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Oxford, _June 14_,
+        The Angel.
+
+
+I have just called. They have gone! Gone hours before they intended! How
+shall I find her in London?
+
+
+_He_
+
+    London, _June 15_,
+        Walsingham House Hotel.
+
+
+As a cathedral town London leaves much to be desired. There are too many
+hotels, too many people, and the distances are too great. For ten hours
+I kept a hansom galloping between St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, with
+no result. I am now going to Ely, where I shall stay in the cathedral
+from morning till night, and have my meals brought to me on a tray by
+the verger.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Ely, _June 15_,
+        At Miss Kettlestring's lodgings.
+
+
+I have lost him! He was not at St. Paul's or Westminster in
+London--great, cruel, busy, brutal London, that could swallow up any
+precious thing and make no sign. And he is not here! They say it is a
+very fine cathedral.
+
+Memoranda: _The Octagon is perhaps the most beautiful and original
+design to be found in the whole range of Gothic architecture. Remember
+also the retrochoir. The lower tier of windows consists of three long
+lancets, with groups of Purbeck shafts at the angles; the upper, of five
+lancets, diminishing from the centre, and set back, as in the
+clerestory, within an arcade supported by shafts._ (I don't believe even
+he could make head or tail of this.) _Remember the curious bosses under
+the brackets of the stone altar in the Alcock Chapel. They represent
+ammonites projecting from their shells and biting each other._ (If I
+were an ammonite I know I should bite Aunt Celia. Look up ammonite.)
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Ely, _June 18_,
+        The Lamb Hotel.
+
+
+I cannot find her! Am racked with rheumatic pains sitting in this big,
+empty, solitary, hollow, reverberating, damp, desolate, deserted
+cathedral hour after hour. On to Peterborough this evening.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Peterborough, _June 18_.
+
+
+He is not here. The cathedral, even the celebrated west front, seems to
+me somewhat overrated. Catherine of Aragon (or one of those Henry the
+Eighth wives) is buried here, also Mary Queen of Scots; but I am tired
+of looking at graves, viciously tired, too, of writing in this trumpery
+note-book. We move on this afternoon.
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Peterborough, _June 19_.
+
+
+A few more days of this modern Love Chase will unfit me for professional
+work. Tried to draw the roof of the choir, a good specimen of early
+Perp., and failed. Studied the itinerary again to see if it had any
+unsuspected suggestions in cipher. No go! York and Durham were
+double-starred by the Aunt Celia's curate as places for long stops.
+Perhaps we shall meet again there.
+
+
+    Lincoln, _June 22_,
+        The Black Boy Inn.
+
+
+I am stopping at a beastly little hole, which has the one merit of being
+opposite Miss Schuyler's lodgings, for I have found her at last. My
+sketch-book has deteriorated in artistic value during the last two
+weeks. Many of its pages, while interesting to me as reminiscences,
+will hardly do for family or studio exhibition. If I should label them,
+the result would be something like this:
+
+1. Sketch of a footstool and desk where I first saw Miss Schuyler
+kneeling.
+
+2. Sketch of a carved oak chair, Miss Schuyler sitting in it.
+
+3. 'Angel choir.' Heads of Miss Schuyler introduced into the carving.
+
+4. Altar screen. A row of full-length Miss Schuylers holding lilies.
+
+5. Tomb of a bishop, where I tied Miss Schuyler's shoe.
+
+6. Tomb of another bishop, where I had to tie it again because I did it
+so badly the first time.
+
+7. Sketch of the shoe, the shoe-lace worn out with much tying.
+
+8. Sketch of the blessed verger who called her 'Madam' when we were
+walking together.
+
+9. Sketch of her blush when he did it; the prettiest thing in the world.
+
+10. Sketch of J. Q. Copley contemplating the ruins of his heart.
+
+'How are the mighty fallen!'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Lincoln, _June 23_,
+        At Miss Smallpage's, Castle Garden.
+
+
+This is one of the charmingest towns we have visited, and I am so glad
+Aunt Celia has a letter to the Canon in residence, because it may keep
+her contented.
+
+We walked up Steep Hill this morning to see the Jews' house, but long
+before we reached it I had seen Mr. Copley sitting on a camp-stool, with
+his easel in front of him. Wonderful to relate, Aunt Celia recognised
+him, and was most cordial in her greeting. As for me, I was never so
+embarrassed in my life. I felt as if he knew that I had expected to see
+him in London and Ely and Peterborough, though, of course, he _couldn't_
+know it, even if he looked for, and missed, me in those three dreary and
+over-estimated places. He had made a most beautiful drawing of the Jews'
+House, and completed his conquest of Aunt Celia by presenting it to her.
+I should like to know when my turn is coming; but, anyway, she asked him
+to luncheon, and he came, and we had such a cosy, homelike meal
+together. He is even nicer than he looks, which is saying a good deal
+more than I should, even to a locked book. Aunt Celia dozed a little
+after luncheon, and Mr. Copley almost talked in whispers, he was so
+afraid of disturbing her nap. It is just in these trifling things that
+one can tell a true man--courtesy to elderly people and consideration
+for their weaknesses. He has done something in the world; I was sure
+that he had. He has a little income of his own, but he is too proud and
+ambitious to be an idler. He looked so manly when he talked about it,
+standing up straight and strong in his knickerbockers. I like men in
+knickerbockers. Aunt Celia doesn't. She says she doesn't see how a
+well-brought-up Copley can go about with his legs in that condition. I
+would give worlds to know how Aunt Celia ever unbent sufficiently to get
+engaged. But, as I was saying, Mr. Copley has accomplished something,
+young as he is. He has built three picturesque suburban churches
+suitable for weddings, and a State lunatic asylum.
+
+Aunt Celia says we shall have no worthy architecture until every
+building is made an exquisitely sincere representation of its deepest
+purpose--a symbol, as it were, of its indwelling meaning. I should think
+it would be very difficult to design a lunatic asylum on that basis, but
+I didn't dare say so, as the idea seemed to present no incongruities to
+Mr. Copley. Their conversation is absolutely sublimated when they get to
+talking of architecture. I have just copied two quotations from Emerson,
+and am studying them every night for fifteen minutes before I go to
+sleep. I'm going to quote them some time offhand, just after matins,
+when we are wandering about the cathedral grounds. The first is this:
+'The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone, subdued by the
+insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into
+an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the
+aerial proportion and perspective of vegetable beauty.' Then when he has
+recovered from the shock of this, here is my second: 'Nor can any lover
+of nature enter the old piles of English cathedrals without feeling that
+the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel,
+his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns, its spikes of flowers, its
+locust, elm, pine, and spruce.'
+
+Memoranda: _Lincoln choir is an example of Early English or First
+Pointed, which can generally be told from something else by bold
+projecting buttresses and dog-tooth moulding round the abacusses._ (The
+plural is my own, and it does not look right.) _Lincoln Castle was the
+scene of many prolonged sieges, and was once taken by Oliver Cromwell._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_He_
+
+    York, _June 26_,
+        The Black Swan.
+
+
+Kitty Schuyler is the concentrated essence of feminine witchery.
+Intuition strong, logic weak, and the two qualities so balanced as to
+produce an indefinable charm; will-power large, but docility equal, if
+a man is clever enough to know how to manage her; knowledge of facts
+absolutely _nil_, but she is exquisitely intelligent in spite of it. She
+has a way of evading, escaping, eluding, and then gives you an
+intoxicating hint of sudden and complete surrender. She is divinely
+innocent, but roguishness saves her from insipidity. Her looks? She
+looks as you would imagine a person might look who possessed these
+graces; and she is worth looking at, though every time I do it I have a
+rush of love to the head. When you find a girl who combines all the
+qualities you have imagined in the ideal, and who has added a dozen or
+two on her own account, merely to distract you past all hope, why stand
+up and try to resist her charm? Down on your knees like a man, say I!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I'm getting to adore Aunt Celia. I didn't care for her at first, but she
+is so deliciously blind. Anything more exquisitely unserviceable as a
+chaperon I can't imagine. Absorbed in antiquity, she ignores the babble
+of contemporaneous lovers. That any man could look at Kitty when he
+could look at a cathedral passes her comprehension. I do not presume too
+greatly on her absent-mindedness, however, lest she should turn
+unexpectedly and rend me. I always remember that inscription on the
+backs of the little mechanical French toys: 'Quoiqu'elle soit trčs
+solidement montée, il faut ne pas brutaliser la machine.'
+
+And so my courtship progresses under Aunt Celia's very nose. I say
+'progresses'; but it is impossible to speak with any certainty of
+courting, for the essence of that gentle craft is hope, rooted in labour
+and trained by love.
+
+[Illustration: She ignores the babble of contemporaneous lovers]
+
+I set out to propose to her during service this afternoon by writing my
+feelings on the flyleaf of the hymn-book, or something like that; but I
+knew that Aunt Celia would never forgive such blasphemy, and I thought
+that Kitty herself might consider it wicked. Besides, if she should
+chance to accept me, there was nothing I could do in a cathedral to
+relieve my feelings. No; if she ever accepts me, I wish it to be in a
+large, vacant spot of the universe, peopled by two only, and those two
+so indistinguishably blended, as it were, that they would appear as one
+to the casual observer. So I practised repression, though the wall of my
+reserve is worn to the thinness of thread-paper, and I tried to keep my
+mind on the droning minor canon, and not to look at her, 'for that way
+madness lies.'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_She_
+
+    York, _June 28_,
+        High Petergate Street.
+
+
+My taste is so bad! I just begin to realize it, and I am feeling my
+'growing pains,' like Gwendolen in 'Daniel Deronda.' I admired the
+stained glass in the Lincoln Cathedral the other day, especially the
+Nuremberg window. I thought Mr. Copley looked pained, but he said
+nothing. When I went to my room, I consulted a book and found that all
+the glass in that cathedral is very modern and very bad, and the
+Nuremberg window is the worst of all. Aunt Celia says she hopes that it
+will be a warning to me to read before I speak; but Mr. Copley says no,
+that the world would lose more in one way than it would gain in the
+other. I tried my quotations this morning, and stuck fast in the middle
+of the first.
+
+Mr. Copley thinks I have been feeing the vergers too liberally, so I
+wrote a song about it called 'The Ballad of the Vergers and the Foolish
+Virgin,' which I sang to my guitar. Mr. Copley thinks it is cleverer
+than anything he ever did with his pencil. Of course, he says that only
+to be agreeable; but really, whenever he talks to me in that way, I can
+almost hear myself purring with pleasure.
+
+We go to two services a day in the minster, and sometimes I sit quite
+alone in the nave drinking in the music as it floats out from behind the
+choir-screen. The Litany and the Commandments are so beautiful heard in
+this way, and I never listen to the fresh, young voices chanting 'Write
+all these Thy laws in our hearts, we beseech Thee,' without wanting
+passionately to be good. I love, too, the joyful burst of music in the
+_Te Deum_: 'Thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.' I
+like that word 'all'; it takes in foolish me, as well as wise Aunt
+Celia.
+
+And yet, with all its pomp and magnificence, the service does not help
+me quite so much nor stir up the deep places, in me so quickly as dear
+old Dr. Kyle's simpler prayers and talks in the village meeting-house
+where I went as a child. Mr. Copley has seen it often, and made a little
+picture of it for me, with its white steeple and the elm-tree branches
+hanging over it. If I ever have a husband I should wish him to have
+memories like my own. It would be very romantic to marry an Italian
+marquis or a Hungarian count, but must it not be a comfort to two people
+to look back on the same past?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We all went to an evening service last night. It was an 'occasion,' and
+a famous organist played the Minster organ.
+
+I wonder why choir-boys are so often playful and fidgety and
+uncanonical in behaviour? Does the choirmaster advertise 'Naughty boys
+preferred,' or do musical voices commonly exist in unregenerate bodies?
+With all the opportunities they must have outside of the cathedral to
+exchange those objects of beauty and utility usually found in boys'
+pockets, there is seldom a service where they do not barter penknives,
+old coins, or tops, generally during the Old Testament reading. A dozen
+little black-surpliced 'probationers' sit together in a seat just
+beneath the choir-boys, and one of them spent his time this evening in
+trying to pull a loose tooth from its socket. The task not only engaged
+all his own powers, but made him the centre of attraction for the whole
+probationary row.
+
+Coming home, Aunt Celia walked ahead with Mrs. Benedict, who keeps
+turning up at the most unexpected moments. She's going to build a
+Gothicky memorial chapel somewhere, and is making studies for it. I
+don't like her in the least, but four is certainly a more comfortable
+number than three. I scarcely ever have a moment alone with Mr. Copley,
+for, go where I will and do what I please, as Aunt Celia has the most
+perfect confidence in my indiscretion, she is always _en évidence_.
+
+Just as we were turning into the quiet little street where we are
+lodging, I said:
+
+'Oh dear, I wish that I really knew something about architecture!'
+
+'If you don't know anything about it, you are certainly responsible for
+a good deal of it,' said Mr. Copley.
+
+'I? How do you mean?' I asked quite innocently, because I couldn't see
+how he could twist such a remark as that into anything like sentiment.
+
+'I have never built so many castles in my life as since I've known you,
+Miss Schuyler,' he said.
+
+'Oh,' I answered as lightly as I could, 'air-castles don't count.'
+
+'The building of air-castles is an innocent amusement enough, I
+suppose,' he said; 'but I'm committing the folly of living in mine. I--'
+
+Then I was frightened. When, all at once, you find you have something
+precious that you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish
+it hadn't come so soon. But just at that moment Mrs. Benedict called to
+us, and came tramping back from the gate, and hooked her supercilious,
+patronizing arm in Mr. Copley's, and asked him into the sitting-room to
+talk over the 'lady-chapel' in her new memorial church. Then Aunt Celia
+told me they would excuse me, as I had had a wearisome day; and there
+was nothing for me to do but to go to bed, like a snubbed child, and
+wonder if I should ever know the end of that sentence. And I listened
+at the head of the stairs, shivering, but all that I could hear was that
+Mrs. Benedict asked Mr. Copley to be her own architect. Her architect,
+indeed! That woman ought not to be at large--so rich and good-looking
+and unconscientious!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_He_
+
+    York, _July 5_.
+
+
+I had just established myself comfortably near to Miss Van Tyck's hotel,
+and found a landlady after my own heart in Mrs. Pickles, No. 6,
+Micklegate, when Miss Van Tyck, aided and abetted, I fear, by the
+romantic Miss Schuyler, elected to change her quarters, and I, of
+course, had to change too. Mine is at present a laborious (but not
+unpleasant) life. The causes of Miss Schuyler's removal, as I have been
+given to understand by the lady herself, were some particularly pleasing
+window-boxes in a lodging in High Petergate Street; boxes overflowing
+with pink geraniums and white field-daisies. No one (she explains) could
+have looked at this house without desiring to live in it; and when she
+discovered, during a somewhat exhaustive study of the premises, that the
+maid's name was Susan Strangeways, and that she was promised in marriage
+to a brewer's apprentice called Sowerbutt, she went back to her
+conventional hotel and persuaded her aunt to remove without delay. If
+Miss Schuyler were offered a room at the Punchbowl Inn in the
+Gillygate and a suite at the Grand Royal Hotel in Broad Street, she
+would choose the former unhesitatingly; just as she refused refreshment
+at the best caterer's this afternoon and dragged Mrs. Benedict and me
+into 'The Little Snug,' where an alluring sign over the door announced
+'A Homely Cup of Tea for Twopence.' But she would outgrow all that; or,
+if she didn't, I have common-sense enough for two; or if I hadn't, I
+shouldn't care a hang.
+
+Is it not a curious dispensation of Providence that, just when Aunt
+Celia is confined to her room with a cold, Mrs. Benedict should join our
+party and spend her days in our company? She drove to the Merchants'
+Hall and the Cavalry Barracks with us, she walked on the city walls with
+us, she even dared the 'homely' tea at 'The Little Snug'; and at that
+moment I determined I wouldn't build her memorial church for her, even
+at a most princely profit.
+
+On crossing Lendal Bridge we saw the river Ouse running placidly through
+the town, and a lot of little green boats moored at a landing-stage.
+
+'How delightful it would be to row for an hour!' exclaimed Miss
+Schuyler.
+
+'Oh, do you think so, in those tippy boats on a strange river?'
+remonstrated Mrs. Benedict.
+
+The moment I suspected she was afraid of the water, I lured her to the
+landing-stage and engaged a boat.
+
+'It's a pity that that large flat one has a leak, otherwise it would
+have held three nicely; but I dare say we can be comfortable in one of
+the little ones,' I said doubtfully.
+
+'Shan't we be too heavy for it?' Mrs. Benedict inquired timidly.
+
+'Oh, I don't think so. We'll get in and try it. If we find it sinks
+under our weight we won't risk it,' I replied, spurred on by such
+twinkles in Miss Schuyler's eyes as blinded me to everything else.
+
+'I really don't think your aunt would like you to venture, Miss
+Schuyler,' said the marplot.
+
+'Oh, as to that, she knows I am accustomed to boating,' replied Miss
+Schuyler.
+
+'And Miss Schuyler is such an excellent swimmer,' I added.
+
+Whereupon the marplot and killjoy remarked that if it were a question
+of swimming she should prefer to remain at home, as she had large
+responsibilities devolving upon her, and her life was in a sense not her
+own to fling away as she might like.
+
+I assured her solemnly that she was quite, quite right, and pushed off
+before she could change her mind.
+
+After a long interval of silence, Miss Schuyler observed in the voice,
+accompanied by the smile and the glance of the eye, that 'did' for me
+the moment I was first exposed to them:
+
+'You oughtn't to have said that about my swimming, because I can't a
+bit, you know.'
+
+'I was justified,' I answered gloomily. 'I have borne too much to-day,
+and if she had come with us and had fallen overboard, I might have been
+tempted to hold her down with the oar.'
+
+Whereupon Miss Schuyler gave way to such whole-hearted mirth that she
+nearly upset the boat. I almost wish she had! I want to swim, sink, die,
+or do any other mortal thing for her.
+
+We had a heavenly hour. It was only an hour, but it was the first time I
+have had any real chance to direct hot shot at the walls of the maiden
+castle. I regret to state that they stood remarkably firm. Of course, I
+don't wish to batter them down; I want them to melt under the warmth of
+my attack.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    York, _July 5_.
+
+
+We had a lovely sail on the river Ouse this afternoon. Mrs. Benedict was
+timid about boating, and did not come with us. As a usual thing, I hate
+a cowardly woman, but her lack of courage is the nicest trait in her
+whole character; I might almost say the only nice trait.
+
+Mr. Copley tried in every way, short of asking me a direct question, to
+find out whether I had received the marked copy of 'Persuasion' in Bath,
+but I evaded the point.
+
+Just as we were at the door of my lodging, and he was saying good-bye, I
+couldn't resist the temptation of asking:
+
+'Why, before you knew us at all, did you put "Miss Van Tyck: Reserved,"
+on the window of the railway carriage at Bath?'
+
+He was embarrassed for a moment, and then he said:
+
+'Well, she _is_, you know, if you come to that; and, besides, I didn't
+dare tell the guard the placard I really wanted to put on.'
+
+'I shouldn't think a lack of daring your most obvious fault,' I said
+cuttingly.
+
+'Perhaps not; but there are limits to most things, and I hadn't the
+pluck to paste on a pink paper with "Miss Schuyler: Engaged," on it.'
+
+He disappeared suddenly just then, as if he wasn't equal to facing my
+displeasure, and I am glad he did, for I was too embarrassed for words.
+
+Memoranda: _In the height of roofs, nave, and choir, York is first of
+English cathedrals._
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Durham, _July something or other_,
+        At Farmer Hendry's.
+
+
+We left York this morning, and arrived in Durham about eleven o'clock.
+It seems there is some sort of an election going on in the town, and
+there was not a single fly at the station. Mr. Copley looked about in
+every direction, but neither horse nor vehicle was to be had for love or
+money. At last we started to walk to the village, Mr. Copley so laden
+with our hand-luggage that he resembled a pack mule.
+
+We called first at the Three Tuns, where they still keep up the old
+custom of giving a wee glass of cherry-brandy to each guest on his
+arrival; but, alas! they were crowded, and we were turned from the
+hospitable door. We then made a tour of the inns, but not a single room
+was to be had, not for that night, nor for two days ahead, on account of
+that same election.
+
+'Hadn't we better go on to Edinburgh, Aunt Celia?' I asked, as we were
+resting in the door of the Jolly Sailor.
+
+'Edinburgh? Never!' she replied. 'Do you suppose that I would
+voluntarily spend a Sunday in those bare Presbyterian churches until the
+memory of these past ideal weeks has faded a little from my memory?
+What! leave out Durham and spoil the set?' (In her agitation and
+disappointment she spoke of the cathedrals as if they were souvenir
+spoons.) 'I intended to stay here for a week or more, and write up a
+record of our entire trip from Winchester while the impressions were
+fresh in my mind.'
+
+'And I had intended doing the same thing,' said Mr. Copley. 'That is, I
+hoped to finish off my previous sketches, which are in a frightful state
+of incompletion, and spend a good deal of time on the interior of this
+cathedral, which is unusually beautiful.'
+
+At this juncture Aunt Celia disappeared for a moment to ask the barmaid
+if, in her opinion, the constant consumption of malt liquors prevents a
+more dangerous indulgence in brandy and whisky. She is gathering
+statistics, but as the barmaids can never collect their thoughts while
+they are drawing ale, Aunt Celia proceeds slowly.
+
+'For my part,' said I, with mock humility, 'I am a docile person, who
+never has any intentions of her own, but who yields herself sweetly to
+the intentions of other people in her immediate vicinity.'
+
+'Are you?' asked Mr. Copley, taking out his pencil.
+
+'Yes, I said so. What are you doing?'
+
+'Merely taking note of your statement, that's all. Now, Miss Van Tyck'
+(of course Aunt Celia appeared at this delightful moment), 'I have a
+plan to propose. I was here last summer with a couple of Harvard men,
+and we lodged at a farmhouse about a mile distant from the cathedral. If
+you will step into the coffee-room for an hour, I'll walk up to Farmer
+Hendry's and see if they will take us in. I think we might be fairly
+comfortable.'
+
+'Can Aunt Celia have Apollinaris and black coffee after her morning
+bath?' I asked.
+
+'I hope, Katharine,' said Aunt Celia majestically--'I hope that I can
+accommodate myself to circumstances. If Mr. Copley can secure
+apartments for us, I shall be more than grateful.'
+
+So here we are, all lodging together in an ideal English farmhouse.
+There is a thatched roof on one of the old buildings, and the
+dairy-house is covered with ivy, and Farmer Hendry's wife makes a real
+English curtsey, and there are herds of beautiful sleek Durham cattle,
+and the butter and cream and eggs and mutton are delicious, and I never,
+never want to go home any more. I want to live here for ever and wave
+the American flag on Washington's birthday.
+
+I am so happy that I feel as if something were going to spoil it all.
+Twenty years old to-day! I wish mamma were alive to wish me many happy
+returns.
+
+The cathedral is very beautiful in itself, and its situation is beyond
+all words of mine to describe. I greatly admired the pulpit, which is
+supported by five pillars sunk into the backs of squashed lions; but
+Mr. Copley, when I asked him the period, said, 'Pure Brummagem!'
+
+There is a nice old cell for refractory monks, that we agreed will be a
+lovely place for Mrs. Benedict if we can lose her in it. She arrives as
+soon as they can find room for her at the Three Tuns.
+
+Memoranda:--Casual remark for breakfast-table or perhaps for
+luncheon--it is a trifle heavy for breakfast: _'Since the sixteenth
+century, and despite the work of Inigo Jones and the great Wren_ (not
+Jenny Wren: Christopher), _architecture has had, in England especially,
+no legitimate development.' This is the only cathedral with a Bishop's
+Throne or a Sanctuary Knocker._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Durham, _July 19_.
+
+
+O child of fortune, thy name is J. Q. Copley! How did it happen to be
+election time? Why did the inns chance to be full? How did Aunt Celia
+relax sufficiently to allow me to find her a lodging? Why did she fall
+in love with the lodging when found? I do not know. I only know Fate
+smiles; that Kitty and I eat our morning bacon and eggs together; that I
+carve Kitty's cold beef and pour Kitty's sparkling ale at luncheon; that
+I go to matins with Kitty, and dine with Kitty, and walk in the gloaming
+with Kitty--and Aunt Celia. And after a day of heaven like this, like
+Lorna Doone's lover--ay, and like every other lover, I suppose--I go to
+sleep, and the roof above me swarms with angels, having Kitty under it.
+
+She was so beautiful on Sunday. She has been wearing her favourite
+browns and primroses through the week, but on Sunday she blossomed into
+blue and white, topped by a wonderful hat, whose brim was laden with
+hyacinths. She sat on the end of a seat in the nave, and there was a
+capped and gowned crowd of university students in the transept. I
+watched them and they watched her. She has the fullest, whitest eyelids,
+and the loveliest lashes. When she looks down I wish she might never
+look up, and when she looks up I am never ready for her to look down. If
+it had been a secular occasion, and she had dropped her handkerchief,
+seven-eighths of the students would have started to pick it up--but I
+should have got there first! Well, all this is but a useless prelude,
+for there are facts to be considered--delightful, warm, breathing facts!
+
+We were coming home from evensong, Kitty and I. (I am anticipating, for
+she was still 'Miss Schuyler' then, but never mind.) We were walking
+through the fields, while Mrs. Benedict and Aunt Celia were driving. As
+we came across a corner of the bit of meadow land that joins the stable
+and the garden, we heard a muffled roar, and as we looked around we saw
+a creature with tossing horns and waving tail making for us, head down,
+eyes flashing. Kitty gave a shriek. We chanced to be near a pair of low
+bars. I hadn't been a college athlete for nothing. I swung Kitty over
+the bars, and jumped after her. But she, not knowing in her fright where
+she was nor what she was doing, supposing also that the mad creature,
+like the villain in the play, would 'still pursue her,' flung herself
+bodily into my arms, crying, 'Jack! Jack! save me!'
+
+It was the first time she had called me 'Jack,' and I needed no second
+invitation. I proceeded to save her, in the usual way, by holding her
+to my heart and kissing her lovely hair reassuringly as I murmured:
+
+'You are safe, my darling; not a hair of your precious head shall be
+hurt. Don't be frightened.'
+
+She shivered like a leaf.
+
+'I am frightened,' she said; 'I can't help being frightened. He will
+chase us, I know. Where is he? What is he doing now?'
+
+Looking up to determine if I need abbreviate this blissful moment, I saw
+the enraged animal disappearing in the side-door of the barn; and it was
+a nice, comfortable Durham cow, that somewhat rare but possible thing--a
+sportive cow.
+
+'Is he gone?' breathed Kitty from my waistcoat.
+
+'Yes, he is gone--she is gone, darling. But don't move; it may come
+again.'
+
+My first too hasty assurance had calmed Kitty's fears, and she raised
+her charming flushed face from its retreat and prepared to withdraw. I
+did not facilitate the preparations, and a moment of awkward silence
+ensued.
+
+'Might I inquire,' I asked, 'if the dear little person at present
+reposing in my arms will stay there (with intervals for rest and
+refreshment) for the rest of her natural life?'
+
+She withdrew entirely now, all but her hand, and her eyes sought the
+ground.
+
+'I suppose I shall have to--that is, if you think--at least, I suppose
+you do think--at any rate, you look as if you were thinking--that this
+has been giving you encouragement.'
+
+'I do indeed--decisive, undoubted, bare-faced encouragement.'
+
+'I don't think I ought to be judged as if I were in my sober senses,'
+she replied. 'I was frightened within an inch of my life. I told you
+this morning that I was dreadfully afraid of bulls, especially mad ones,
+and I told you that my nurse frightened me, when I was a child, with
+awful stories about them, and that I never outgrew my childish terror. I
+looked everywhere about. The barn was too far, the fence too high; I saw
+him coming, and there was nothing but you and the open country. Of
+course, I took you. It was very natural, I'm sure; any girl would have
+done it.'
+
+'To be sure,' I replied soothingly, 'any girl would have run after me,
+as you say.'
+
+'I didn't say any girl would have run after you--you needn't flatter
+yourself; and besides, I think I was really trying to protect you as
+well as to gain protection, else why should I have cast myself on you
+like a catamount, or a catacomb, or whatever the thing is?'
+
+'Yes, darling, I thank you for saving my life, and I am willing to
+devote the remainder of it to your service as a pledge of my gratitude;
+but if you should take up life-saving as a profession, dear, don't throw
+yourself on a fellow with--'
+
+'Jack! Jack!' she cried, putting her hand over my lips, and getting it
+well kissed in consequence. 'If you will only forget that, and never,
+never taunt me with it afterwards, I'll--I'll--well, I'll do anything in
+reason--yes, even marry you!'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Canterbury, _July 31_,
+        The Royal Fountain.
+
+
+I was never sure enough of Kitty, at first, to dare risk telling her
+about that little mistake of hers. She is such an elusive person that I
+spend all my time in wooing her, and can never lay the flattering
+unction to my soul that she is really won.
+
+But after Aunt Celia had looked up my family record and given a
+provisional consent, and Papa Schuyler had cabled a reluctant blessing,
+I did not feel capable of any further self-restraint.
+
+It was twilight here in Canterbury, and we were sitting on the
+vine-shaded veranda of Aunt Celia's lodging. Kitty's head was on my
+shoulder. There is something very queer about that; when Kitty's head is
+on my shoulder, I am not capable of any consecutive train of thought.
+When she puts it there I see stars, then myriads of stars, then, oh! I
+can't begin to enumerate the steps by which ecstasy mounts to delirium;
+but, at all events, any operation which demands exclusive use of the
+intellect is beyond me at these times. Still, I gathered my stray wits
+together, and said:
+
+'Kitty!'
+
+'Yes, Jack?'
+
+'Now that nothing but death or marriage can separate us, I have
+something to confess to you.'
+
+'Yes,' she said serenely, 'I know what you are going to say. He was a
+cow.'
+
+I lifted her head from my shoulder sternly, and gazed into her
+childlike, candid eyes.
+
+'You mountain of deceit! How long have you known about it?'
+
+[Illustration: "Lor', miss!" said Farmer Hendry, "he haven't been
+pastured there for three weeks"]
+
+'Ever since the first. Oh, Jack, stop looking at me in that way! Not the
+very first, not when I--not when you--not when we--no, not then, but the
+next morning, I said to Farmer Hendry, "I wish you would keep your
+savage bull chained up while we are here; Aunt Celia is awfully afraid
+of them, especially those that go mad, like yours!" "Lor', miss!" said
+Farmer Hendry, "he haven't been pastured here for three weeks. I keep
+him six mile away. There ben't nothing but gentle cows in the home
+medder." But I didn't think that you knew, you secretive person! I dare
+say you planned the whole thing in advance, in order to take advantage
+of my fright!'
+
+'Never! I am incapable of such an unnecessary subterfuge! Besides,
+Kitty, I could not have made an accomplice of a cow, you know.'
+
+'Then,' she said, with great dignity, 'if you had been a gentleman and a
+man of honour, you would have cried, "Unhand me, girl! You are clinging
+to me under a misunderstanding!"'
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Chester, _August 8_,
+        The Grosvenor.
+
+
+Jack and I are going over this same ground next summer on our wedding
+journey. We shall sail for home next week, and we haven't half done
+justice to the cathedrals. After the first two, we saw nothing but each
+other on a general background of architecture. I hope my mind is
+improved, but oh, I am so hazy about all the facts I have read since I
+knew Jack! Winchester and Salisbury stand out superbly in my memory.
+They acquired their ground before it was occupied with other matters. I
+shall never forget, for instance, that Winchester has the longest spire
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+Title: A Cathedral Courtship
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+Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
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+Illustrator: Charles E. Brock
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+
+<h2><a name="png.001" id="png.001"></a><span class="ns">[p </span><span
+ class="pgmark">i</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP</h2>
+
+<p class="illus pgbrk"><img src="images/cover-small.jpg" width="200" height="359"
+ alt="Cover" title="Cover" /></p>
+
+
+
+<div class="bysame">
+
+<h3><a name="png.002" id="png.002"></a><span class="ns">[p </span><span
+ class="pgmark">ii</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>By the same Author.</i></h3>
+
+<p><b>Penelope&#8217;s Irish Experiences.</b> 6s.</p>
+
+<p><b>Penelope&#8217;s English Experiences.</b> Illustrated by
+<span class="smc">Charles E. Brock</span>. 6s.</p>
+
+<p><b>Penelope&#8217;s Experiences in Scotland.</b> Illustrated
+by <span class="smc">Charles E. Brock</span>. 6s.</p>
+
+<p><b>Timothy&#8217;s Quest.</b> Illustrated by <span class="smc">Oliver Herford</span>.
+<span class="nw">2s. 6d.</span></p>
+
+<p><b>Marm Liza.</b> 6s.</p>
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+<p><b>Polly Oliver&#8217;s Problem.</b> Illustrated. <span class="nw">3s. 6d.</span></p>
+
+<p><b>Summer in a Cańon.</b> Illustrated. <span class="nw">3s. 6d.</span></p>
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+
+<p><b>Story of Patsy.</b> Illustrated. <span class="nw">1s. 6d.</span></p>
+
+<h3><i>By Mrs. Wiggin &amp; Miss Nora A. Smith.</i></h3>
+
+<p><b>The Story Hour.</b> Illustrated. <span class="nw">2s. 6d.</span></p>
+
+<p><b>Children&#8217;s Rights.</b> 5s.</p>
+
+<p><b>Republic of Childhood.</b> 3&nbsp;vols. 5s. each.</p>
+
+<p class="publ"><i>LONDON: GAY AND BIRD.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p class="illus pgbrk"><a name="png.004" id="png.004"></a><span class="ns">[p </span><span
+ class="pgmark">iv</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><img src="images/illus-004.png" width="440" height="700"
+ alt="&lsquo;Jack! Jack! save me!&rsquo;" title="&lsquo;Jack! Jack! save me!&rsquo;" /></p>
+
+
+<h1><a name="png.005" id="png.005"></a><span class="ns">[p </span><span
+ class="pgmark">v</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><small>A</small><br
+ />Cathedral Courtship</h1>
+
+<p class="author"><small class="tiny">BY</small><br
+ /><big>Kate Douglas Wiggin</big></p>
+
+<p class="illustrator"><small><i>ILLUSTRATED</i><br
+ /><span class="tiny">BY</span></small><br
+ />CHARLES E. BROCK</p>
+
+<p class="illus"><img src="images/illus-005.png" width="150" height="146"
+  alt="Publisher's device" title="Publisher's device" /></p>
+
+<p class="publisher">GAY AND BIRD<br
+ /><small>22 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND</small><br
+ />LONDON<br
+ /><small>1901</small></p>
+
+<p class="tb pgbrk noindent"><small><i>All rights reserved</i></small></p>
+
+
+<p class="pubhist"><a name="png.006" id="png.006"></a><span class="ns">[p </span><span
+ class="pgmark">vi</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><small><i>Originally published in 1893 with
+&lsquo;Penelope&#8217;s English Experiences,&rsquo;
+and reprinted 1893 (twice), 1894,
+1895, 1896, 1897.</i></small></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="preface">
+
+<h2><a name="png.007" id="png.007"></a><span class="ns">[p </span><span
+ class="pgmark">vii</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>PREFACE</i></h2>
+
+<p><i>&lsquo;<span class="smc">A Cathedral Courtship</span>&rsquo; was first published
+in 1893, appearing in a volume with &lsquo;Penelope&#8217;s
+English Experiences.&rsquo; In course of time, the
+latter story, finding unexpected favour in the
+public eyes, left its modest companion, and was
+promoted to a separate existence, with pictures
+and covers of its own. Then something rather
+curious occurred, one of those trifles which serve
+to make a publisher&#8217;s life an exciting, if not a
+happy, one. When the &lsquo;gentle reader&rsquo; (bless his
+or her warm and irrational heart!) could no
+longer buy &lsquo;A Cathedral Courtship,&rsquo; a new desire
+for it sprang into being, and when the demands
+became sufficiently ardent and numerous, it was
+decided to republish the story, with illustrations
+by Mr. Charles E. Brock, an artist who can be
+<a name="png.008" id="png.008"></a><span class="ns">[p </span><span
+ class="pgmark">viii</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>relied upon to put new energy into a live tale or
+resuscitate a dead one.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>At this point the author, having presumably
+grown in knowledge of grammar, spelling, and
+punctuation, was asked to revise the text, and
+being confronted with the printed page, was overcome
+by the temptation to add now and then a
+sentence, line, or paragraph, while the charming
+shade of Miss Kitty Schuyler perched on every
+exclamation point, begging permission to say a
+trifle, just a trifle, more.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>&lsquo;You might allow me to explain myself just
+there,&rsquo; she coaxed; &lsquo;and if you have told them
+all I was supposed to be thinking in Winchester
+or Salisbury or Oxford, why not tell them what
+I thought in Bath or Peterborough or Ely? It
+was awfully interesting!&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Jack Copley, too, clamoured to be heard still
+further on the subject of his true-love&#8217;s charms,
+so the author yielded to this twofold pressure, and
+added a few corroborative details.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>The little courtship, running its placid course
+through sleepy cathedral towns, has not been altered
+in the least by these new pages. It is only as if
+<a name="png.009" id="png.009"></a><span class="ns">[p </span><span
+ class="pgmark">ix</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the story-teller, meeting a new pair of interested
+eyes, had almost unconsciously drifted into fresh
+confidences.</i></p>
+
+<p class="rt"><i>KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN.</i></p>
+
+
+<p class="dummyh3"><i>This is all quite true, and anyway we have said
+nothing that we are a bit ashamed of.</i></p>
+
+<div class="ctr">
+<p><i>KITTY SCHUYLER.</i></p>
+
+<p class="sans"><big>X</big></p>
+
+<p><i>JACK COPLEY.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="rt"><i>Their mark.</i></p>
+
+<p class="pgbrk"><span class="smc">London</span>, <i>July</i>, 1901.</p>
+
+
+
+<h2 class="ws1 top4"><a name="png.011" id="png.011"></a><span class="ns">[p </span><span
+ class="pgmark">xi</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
+
+
+<table summary="List of Figures">
+
+<tr><td></td><td></td><td class="pg"><small>PAGE</small></td></tr>
+
+<tr class="first"><td>&lsquo;JACK! JACK! SAVE ME!&rsquo;</td><td class="rt" colspan="2"><a href="#png.004"><i>Frontispiece</i></a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2">&lsquo;IT WOULD &#8217;ARDLY BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR
+GOOSEBERRY-TART, MISS&rsquo;</td><td class="pg"><a href="#png.023">11</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2">I OFFERED IT TO HER WITH DISTINGUISHED
+GRACE</td><td class="pg"><a href="#png.039">27</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2">I WAS DISCONCERTED AT BEING FOUND IN A
+DRAMSHOP ALONE</td><td class="pg"><a href="#png.047">35</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2">SHE IGNORES THE BABBLE OF CONTEMPORANEOUS
+LOVERS</td><td class="pg"><a href="#png.075">63</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2">&lsquo;LOR&#8217;, MISS!&rsquo; SAID FARMER HENDRY, &lsquo;HE
+HAVEN&#8217;T BEEN PASTURED THERE FOR THREE
+WEEKS&rsquo;</td><td class="pg"><a href="#png.105">93</a></td></tr>
+
+</table>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="main">
+
+<h1><a name="png.013" id="png.013"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">1</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><small>A</small><br
+ /><big>CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP</big></h1>
+
+
+<h3><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Winchester</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>May</i> 28, &mdash;&mdash;,</span><br
+ />The Royal Garden Inn.</small></p>
+
+
+<p><span class="smc">We</span> are doing the English cathedral towns,
+Aunt Celia and I. Aunt Celia has an
+intense desire to improve my mind. Papa
+told her, when we were leaving Cedarhurst,
+that he wouldn&#8217;t for the world have
+it too much improved, and Aunt Celia remarked
+that, so far as she could judge,
+there was no immediate danger; with
+which exchange of hostilities they parted.</p>
+
+<p>We are travelling under the yoke of an
+<a name="png.014" id="png.014"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">2</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>iron itinerary, warranted neither to bend
+nor break. It was made out by a young
+High Church curate in New York, and if
+it were a creed, or a document that had
+been blessed by all the bishops and popes,
+it could not be more sacred to Aunt Celia.
+She is awfully High Church, and I believe
+she thinks this tour of the cathedrals will
+give me a taste for ritual and bring me
+into the true fold. Mamma was a Unitarian,
+and so when she was alive I
+generally attended service at that church.
+Aunt Celia says it is not a Church; that
+the most you can say for it is that it is a
+&lsquo;belief&rsquo; rather loosely and carelessly formulated.
+She also says that dear old Dr.
+Kyle is the most dangerous Unitarian she
+knows, because he has leanings towards
+Christianity.</p>
+
+<p>Long ago, in her youth, Aunt Celia was
+engaged to a young architect. He, with
+his triangles and T-squares and things,
+<a name="png.015" id="png.015"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">3</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>succeeded in making an imaginary scale-drawing
+of her heart (up to that time a
+virgin forest, an unmapped territory), which
+enabled him to enter in and set up a
+pedestal there, on which he has remained
+ever since. He has been only a memory
+for many years, to be sure, for he died at
+the age of twenty-six, before he had had
+time to build anything but a livery stable
+and a country hotel. This is fortunate,
+on the whole, because Aunt Celia thinks
+he was destined to establish American
+architecture on a higher plane, rid it of its
+base, time-serving, imitative instincts, and
+waft it to a height where, in the course
+of centuries, it would have been revered
+and followed by all the nations of the
+earth.</p>
+
+<p>I went to see the stable, after one of
+these Miriam-like flights of prophecy on the
+might-have-been. It isn&#8217;t fair to judge a
+man&#8217;s promise by one modest performance,
+<a name="png.016" id="png.016"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">4</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and so I shall say nothing, save that I am
+sure it was the charm of the man that
+won my aunt&#8217;s affection, not the genius of
+the builder.</p>
+
+<p>This sentiment about architecture and
+this fondness for the very toppingest High
+Church ritual cause Aunt Celia to look on
+the English cathedrals with solemnity and
+reverential awe. She has given me a
+fat <ins class="TNsilent" title="Transcriber's note:
+ original lacks hyphen">note-book</ins>, with &lsquo;Katharine Schuyler&rsquo;
+stamped in gold letters on the Russia-leather
+cover, and a lock and key to
+conceal its youthful inanities from the
+general public. I am not at all the sort
+of girl who makes notes, and I have told
+her so; but she says that I must at least
+record my passing impressions, if they are
+ever so trivial and commonplace. She
+also says that one&#8217;s language gains unconsciously
+in dignity and sobriety by
+being set down in black and white, and
+that a liberal use of pen and ink will
+<a name="png.017" id="png.017"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">5</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>be sure to chasten my extravagances of
+style.</p>
+
+<p>I wanted to go directly from Southampton
+to London with the Abbotts, our
+ship friends, who left us yesterday. Roderick
+Abbott and I had had a charming
+time on board ship (more charming than
+Aunt Celia knows, because she was very
+ill, and her natural powers of chaperoning
+were severely impaired), and the prospect
+of seeing London sights together was not
+unpleasing; but Roderick Abbott is not in
+Aunt Celia&#8217;s itinerary, which reads: &lsquo;Winchester,
+Salisbury, Bath, Wells, Gloucester,
+Oxford, London, Ely, Peterborough, Lincoln,
+York, Durham.&rsquo; These are the
+cathedrals Aunt Celia&#8217;s curate chose to
+visit, and this is the order in which he
+chose to visit them. Canterbury was too
+far east for him, and Exeter was too far
+west, but he suggests Ripon and Hereford
+if strength and time permit.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.018" id="png.018"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">6</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Aunt Celia is one of those persons who
+are born to command, and when they are
+thrown in contact with those who are born
+to be commanded all goes as merry as a
+marriage bell; otherwise not.</p>
+
+<p>So here we are at Winchester; and I
+don&#8217;t mind all the Roderick Abbotts in the
+universe, now that I have seen the Royal
+Garden Inn, its pretty coffee-room opening
+into the old-fashioned garden, with its
+borders of clove-pinks, its aviaries, and
+its blossoming horse-chestnuts, great towering
+masses of pink bloom.</p>
+
+<p>Aunt Celia has driven to St. Cross
+Hospital with Mrs. Benedict, an estimable
+lady tourist whom she &lsquo;picked up&rsquo; <i>en
+route</i> from Southampton. I am tired, and
+stayed at home. I cannot write letters,
+because Aunt Celia has the guide-books,
+so I sit by the window in indolent content,
+watching the dear little school laddies,
+with their short jackets and wide white
+<a name="png.019" id="png.019"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">7</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>collars; they all look so jolly, and rosy,
+and clean, and kissable. I should like to
+kiss the chambermaid, too. She has a
+pink print dress, no fringe, thank goodness
+(it&#8217;s curious our servants can&#8217;t leave that
+deformity to the upper classes), but shining
+brown hair, plump figure, soft voice, and
+a most engaging way of saying &lsquo;Yes,
+miss? Anythink more, miss?&rsquo; I long to
+ask her to sit down comfortably and be
+English while I study her as a type, but
+of course I mustn&#8217;t. Sometimes I wish
+I could retire from the world for a season
+and do what I like, &lsquo;surrounded by the
+general comfort of being thought mad.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>An elegant, irreproachable, high-minded
+model of dignity and reserve has just
+knocked and inquired what we will have
+for dinner. It is very embarrassing to
+give orders to a person who looks like a
+Justice of the Supreme Court, but I said
+languidly:</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.020" id="png.020"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">8</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>&lsquo;What would you suggest?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;How would you like a clear soup, a
+good spring soup, to begin with, miss?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Very much.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;And a bit of turbot next, miss, with
+anchovy sauce?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Yes, turbot, by all means,&rsquo; I said, my
+mouth watering at the word.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;And what else, miss? Would you
+enjoy a young duckling, miss, with new
+potatoes and green peas?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Just the thing; and for dessert&mdash;&rsquo;
+I couldn&#8217;t think what I ought to order
+next in England, but the high-minded
+model coughed apologetically, and, correcting
+my language, said:</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I was thinking you might like gooseberry-tart
+and cream for a sweet, miss.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Oh that I could have vented my New
+World enthusiasm in a sigh of delight as
+I heard those intoxicating words, heretofore
+met only in English novels!</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.021" id="png.021"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">9</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>&lsquo;Ye&mdash;es,&rsquo; I said hesitatingly, though I
+was palpitating with joy, &lsquo;I fancy we
+should like gooseberry-tart&rsquo; (here a bright
+idea entered my mind); &lsquo;and perhaps, in
+case my aunt doesn&#8217;t care for the gooseberry-tart,
+you might bring a lemon-squash,
+please.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Now, I had never met a lemon-squash
+personally, but I had often heard of it, and
+wished to show my familiarity with British
+culinary art.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;It would &#8217;ardly be a substitute for
+gooseberry-tart, miss; but shall I bring
+<em>one</em> lemon-squash, miss?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Oh, as to that, it doesn&#8217;t matter,&rsquo; I
+said haughtily; &lsquo;bring a sufficient number
+for two persons.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p>
+
+<p>Aunt Celia came home in the highest
+feather. She had twice been mistaken for
+an Englishwoman. She said she thought
+<a name="png.022" id="png.022"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">10</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>that lemon-squash was a drink; I thought,
+of course, it was a pie; but we shall find
+out at dinner, for, as I said, I ordered a
+sufficient number for two persons, and the
+head-waiter is not a personage who will
+let Transatlantic ignorance remain uninstructed.</p>
+
+<p>At four o&#8217;clock we attended evensong
+at the cathedral. I shall not say what I
+felt when the white-surpliced boy choir
+entered, winding down those vaulted aisles,
+or when I heard for the first time that
+intoned service, with all its &lsquo;witchcraft of
+harmonic sound.&rsquo; I sat quite by myself
+in a high carved oak seat, and the hour
+was passed in a trance of serene delight.
+I do not have many opinions, it is true,
+but papa says I am always strong on
+sentiments; nevertheless, I shall not
+attempt to tell even what I feel in these
+new and beautiful experiences, for it has
+been better told a thousand times.</p>
+
+<p class="illus"><a name="png.023" id="png.023"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">11</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><img src="images/illus-023.png" width="438" height="700"
+ alt="&ldquo;It would &#8217;ardly be a substitute for gooseberry-tart, miss.&rdquo;"
+ title="&ldquo;It would &#8217;ardly be a substitute for gooseberry-tart, miss.&rdquo;" /></p>
+
+<p><a name="png.024" id="png.024"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">12</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>There were a great many people at
+service, and a large number of Americans
+among them, I should think, though we
+saw no familiar faces. There was one
+particularly nice young man, who looked
+like a Bostonian. He sat opposite me.
+He didn&#8217;t stare&mdash;he was too well bred,
+but when I looked the other way he looked
+at me. Of course, I could feel his eyes;
+anybody can&mdash;at least, any girl can; but
+I attended to every word of the service,
+and was as good as an angel. When the
+procession had filed out, and the last
+strain of the great organ had rumbled into
+silence, we went on a tour through the
+cathedral, a heterogeneous band, headed
+by a conscientious old verger, who did his
+best to enlighten us, and succeeded in
+virtually spoiling my pleasure.</p>
+
+<p>After we had finished (think of &lsquo;finishing&rsquo;
+a cathedral in an hour or two!), Aunt
+Celia and I, with one or two others,
+<a name="png.025" id="png.025"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">13</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>wandered through the beautiful close,
+looking at the exterior from every possible
+point, and coming at last to a certain
+ruined arch which is very famous. It
+did not strike me as being remarkable. I
+could make any number of them with a
+pattern without the least effort. But, at
+any rate, when told by the verger to gaze
+upon the beauties of this wonderful relic
+and tremble, we were obliged to gaze also
+upon the beauties of the aforesaid nice
+young man, who was sketching it.</p>
+
+<p>As we turned to go away, Aunt Celia
+dropped her bag. It is one of those
+detestable, all-absorbing, all-devouring,
+thoroughly respectable, but never proud,
+Boston bags, made of black cloth with
+leather trimmings, &lsquo;C. Van T.&rsquo; embroidered
+on the side, and the top drawn up with
+stout cords which pass over the Boston
+wrist or arm. As for me, I loathe them,
+and would not for worlds be seen carrying
+<a name="png.026" id="png.026"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">14</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>one, though I do slip a great many necessaries
+into Aunt Celia&#8217;s.</p>
+
+<p>I hastened to pick up the horrid thing,
+for fear the nice young man would feel
+obliged to do it for me; but, in my indecorous
+haste, I caught hold of the wrong
+end, and emptied the entire contents on
+the stone flagging. Aunt Celia didn&#8217;t
+notice; she had turned with the verger,
+lest she should miss a single word of his
+inspired testimony. So we scrambled up
+the articles together, the nice young man
+and I; and oh, I hope I may never look
+upon his face <ins class="TNsilent" title="Transcriber's note:
+ original lacks people">again.</ins></p>
+
+<p>There were prayer-books and guide-books,
+a Bath bun, a bottle of soda-mint
+tablets, a church calendar, a bit of gray
+frizz that Aunt Celia pins into her cap
+when she is travelling in damp weather, a
+spectacle-case, a brandy-flask, and a bon-bon-box,
+which broke and scattered cloves
+and peppermint lozenges. (I hope he
+<a name="png.027" id="png.027"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">15</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>guessed Aunt Celia is a dyspeptic, and not
+intemperate!) All this was hopelessly
+vulgar, but I wouldn&#8217;t have minded anything
+if there had not been a Duchess
+novel. Of course he thought that it belonged
+to me. He couldn&#8217;t have known
+Aunt Celia was carrying it for that accidental
+Mrs. Benedict, with whom she went
+to St. Cross Hospital.</p>
+
+<p>After scooping the cloves out of the
+cracks in the stone flagging&mdash;and, of
+course, he needn&#8217;t have done this, unless
+he had an abnormal sense of humour&mdash;he
+handed me the tattered, disreputable-looking
+copy of &lsquo;A Modern Circe,&rsquo; with
+a bow that wouldn&#8217;t have disgraced a
+Chesterfield, and then went back to his
+easel, while I fled after Aunt Celia and
+her verger.</p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p>
+
+<p>Memoranda: <i>The Winchester Cathedral
+has the longest nave. The inside is more
+<a name="png.028" id="png.028"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">16</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>superb than the outside. Izaak Walton and
+Jane Austen are buried here.</i></p>
+
+
+<h3><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Winchester</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>May</i> 28,</span><br
+ />The White Swan.</small></p>
+
+<p>As sure as my name is Jack Copley, I
+saw the prettiest girl in the world to-day&mdash;an
+American, too, or I am greatly mistaken.
+It was in the cathedral, where I
+have been sketching for several days. I
+was sitting at the end of a bench, at afternoon
+service, when two ladies entered by
+the side-door. The ancient maiden, evidently
+the head of the family, settled herself
+devoutly, and the young one stole off
+by herself to one of the old carved seats
+back of the choir. She was worse than
+pretty! I made a memorandum of her
+during service, as she sat under the dark
+carved-oak canopy, with this Latin inscription
+over her head:</p>
+
+<p class="i4"><a name="png.029" id="png.029"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">17</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><span class="smc">Carlton cum<br
+ />Dolby<br
+ />Letania<br
+ />IX Solidorum<br
+ />Super Flumina<br
+ />Confitebor tibi<br
+ />D&#363;c probati</span></p>
+
+<p>There ought to be a law against a
+woman&#8217;s making a picture of herself, unless
+she is willing to allow an artist to &lsquo;fix
+her&rsquo; properly in his gallery of types.</p>
+
+<p>A black-and-white sketch doesn&#8217;t give
+any definite idea of this charmer&#8217;s charms,
+but sometime I&#8217;ll fill it in&mdash;hair, sweet
+little hat, gown, and eyes, all in golden
+brown, a cape of tawny sable slipping off
+her arm, a knot of yellow primroses in
+her girdle, carved-oak background, and
+the afternoon sun coming through a
+stained-glass window. Great Jove! She
+had a most curious effect on me, that girl!
+I can&#8217;t explain it&mdash;very curious, altogether
+new, and rather pleasant. When one of
+<a name="png.030" id="png.030"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">18</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the choir-boys sang &lsquo;Oh for the wings of
+a dove!&rsquo; a tear rolled out of one of her
+lovely eyes and down her smooth brown
+cheek. I would have given a large portion
+of my modest monthly income for the
+felicity of wiping away that teardrop with
+one of my new handkerchiefs, marked with
+a tremendous &lsquo;C&rsquo; by my pretty sister.</p>
+
+<p>An hour or two later they appeared
+again&mdash;the dragon, who answers to the
+name of &lsquo;Aunt Celia,&rsquo; and the &lsquo;nut-brown
+mayde,&rsquo; who comes when she is called
+&lsquo;Katharine.&rsquo; I was sketching a ruined
+arch. The dragon dropped her unmistakably
+Boston bag. I expected to see
+encyclopędias and Russian tracts fall from
+it, but was disappointed. The &lsquo;nut-brown
+mayde&rsquo; (who has been trained in the
+way she should go) hastened to pick up
+the bag for fear that I, a stranger,
+should serve her by doing it. She was
+punished by turning it inside out, and I
+<a name="png.031" id="png.031"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">19</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>was rewarded by helping her gather together
+the articles, which were many and
+ill-assorted. My little romance received
+the first blow when I found that she reads
+the Duchess novels. I think, however, she
+has the grace to be ashamed of it, for she
+blushed scarlet when I handed her &lsquo;A
+Modern Circe.&rsquo; I could have told her that
+such a blush on such a cheek would almost
+atone for not being able to read at all, but
+I refrained. It is vexatious all the same,
+for, though one doesn&#8217;t expect to find perfection
+here below, the &lsquo;nut-brown mayde,&rsquo;
+externally considered, comes perilously
+near it. After she had gone I discovered
+a slip of paper which had blown under
+some stones. It proved to be an itinerary.
+I didn&#8217;t return it. I thought they must
+know which way they were going; and as
+this was precisely what I wanted to know,
+I kept it for my own use. She is doing
+the cathedral towns. I am doing the
+<a name="png.032" id="png.032"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">20</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>cathedral towns. Happy thought! Why
+shouldn&#8217;t we do them together&mdash;we and
+Aunt Celia? A fellow whose mother and
+sister are in America must have some
+feminine society!</p>
+
+<p>I had only ten minutes to catch my
+train for Salisbury, but I concluded to run
+in and glance at the registers of the principal
+hotels. Found my &lsquo;nut-brown mayde&rsquo;
+at once in the guest-book of the Royal
+Garden Inn: &lsquo;Miss Celia Van Tyck,
+Beverly, Mass., U.S.A. Miss Katharine
+Schuyler, New York, U.S.A.&rsquo; I concluded
+to stay over another train, ordered
+dinner, and took an altogether indefensible
+and inconsistent pleasure in writing &lsquo;John
+Quincy Copley, Cambridge, Mass.,&rsquo; directly
+beneath the charmer&#8217;s autograph.</p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p>
+
+<h3><a name="png.033" id="png.033"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">21</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Salisbury</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 1,</span><br
+ />The White Hart Inn.</small></p>
+
+<p>We left Winchester on the 1.16 train
+yesterday, and here we are within sight of
+another superb and ancient pile of stone.
+I wanted so much to stop at the Highflyer
+Inn in Lark Lane, but Aunt Celia said
+that if we were destitute of personal dignity,
+we at least owed something to our
+ancestors. Aunt Celia has a temperamental
+distrust of joy as something dangerous
+and ensnaring. She doesn&#8217;t realize
+what fun it would be to date one&#8217;s letters
+from the Highflyer Inn, Lark Lane, even
+if one were obliged to consort with poachers
+and trippers in order to do it.</p>
+
+<p>Better times are coming, however, for
+she was in a melting mood last evening,
+and promised me that wherever I can find
+an inn with a picturesque and unusual
+<a name="png.034" id="png.034"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">22</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>name, she will stop there, provided it is
+clean and respectable, if I on my part will
+agree to make regular notes of travel in
+my Russia-leather book. She says that
+ever since she was my age she has asked
+herself nightly the questions Pythagoras
+was in the habit of using as a nightcap:</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div>&lsquo;What have I learned that&#8217;s worth the knowing?</div>
+<div>What have I done that&#8217;s worth the doing?</div>
+<div>What have I sought I should have shunned,</div>
+<div>And into what new follies run?&rsquo;</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>I asked her why Pythagoras didn&#8217;t say
+&lsquo;runned&rsquo; and make a consistent rhyme,
+and she evaded the point by answering
+that Pythagoras didn&#8217;t write it in English.</p>
+
+<p>We attended service at three. The
+music was lovely, and there were beautiful
+stained-glass windows by Burne-Jones
+and Morris. The verger (when wound up
+with a shilling) talked like an electric doll.
+If that nice young man is making a
+cathedral tour like ourselves, he isn&#8217;t
+<a name="png.035" id="png.035"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">23</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>taking our route, for he isn&#8217;t here. If he
+has come over for the purpose of sketching,
+he wouldn&#8217;t stop with one cathedral,
+unless he is very indolent and unambitious,
+and he doesn&#8217;t look either of these.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps he began at the other end, and
+worked down to Winchester. Yes, that
+must be it, for the <cite>Ems</cite> sailed yesterday
+from Southampton. Too bad, for he was
+a distinct addition to the landscape. Why
+didn&#8217;t I say, when he was picking up the
+collection of curios in Aunt Celia&#8217;s bag,
+&lsquo;You needn&#8217;t bother about the novel,
+thank you; it is not mine, and anyway it
+would be of no use to anybody.&rsquo;</p>
+
+
+<p class="dateline dummyh3"><small><span class="date"><i>June</i> 2.</span></small></p>
+
+<p>We intended to go to Stonehenge this
+morning, but it rained, so we took a
+&lsquo;growler&rsquo; and went to the Earl of Pembroke&#8217;s
+country place to see the pictures.
+Had a delightful morning with the
+<a name="png.036" id="png.036"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">24</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>magnificent antiques, curios, and portraits. The
+Van Dyck room is a joy for ever; but one
+really needs a guide or a friend who knows
+something of art if one would understand
+these things. There were other visitors;
+nobody who looked especially interesting.
+Don&#8217;t like Salisbury so well as Winchester.
+Don&#8217;t know why. We shall drive this
+afternoon, if it is fair, and go to Bath and
+Wells to-morrow, I am glad to say. Must
+read Baedeker on the Bishop&#8217;s palace.
+Oh, dear! if one could only have a good
+time and not try to know anything!</p>
+
+<p>Memoranda: <i>This cathedral has the
+highest spire. Remember: Winchester,
+longest nave; Salisbury, highest spire.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>The Lancet style is those curved lines
+meeting in a rounding or a sharp point like
+this <img class= "squiggle1" src="images/squiggle1.png"
+ alt="inverted U shape and /\" title="inverted U shape and /\"
+ />, and then joined together like
+this <img class= "squiggle2" src="images/squiggle2.png"
+ alt="\/\/\/" title="\/\/\/" />, the way they scallop
+babies&#8217; flannel petticoats. Gothic looks like
+triangles meeting together in various spots
+<a name="png.037" id="png.037"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">25</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and joined with a beautiful sort of ornamented
+knobs. I think I recognise Gothic
+when I see it. Then there is Norman,
+Early English, fully developed Early
+English, Early and Late Perpendicular,
+Transition, and, for aught I know, a lot of
+others. Aunt Celia can tell them all apart.</i></p>
+
+
+<h3><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Salisbury</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 3,</span><br
+ />The Red Lion.</small></p>
+
+<p>I went off on a long tramp this afternoon,
+and coming on a pretty river flowing
+through green meadows, with a fringe of
+trees on either side, I sat down to make a
+sketch. I heard feminine voices in the
+vicinity, but as these are generally a part
+of the landscape in the tourist season, I
+paid no special notice. Suddenly a dainty
+patent-leather shoe floated towards me on
+the surface of the stream. It evidently
+had just dropped in, for it was right side
+<a name="png.038" id="png.038"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">26</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>up with care, and was disporting itself
+most merrily. &lsquo;Did ever Jove&#8217;s tree drop
+such fruit?&rsquo; I quoted as I fished it out on
+my stick; and just then I heard a distressed
+voice saying, &lsquo;Oh, Aunt Celia,
+I&#8217;ve lost my smart little London shoe. I
+was sitting in a tree taking a pebble out of
+the heel, when I saw a caterpillar, and I
+dropped it into the river&mdash;the shoe, you
+know, not the caterpillar.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="illus"><a name="png.039" id="png.039"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">27</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span><img src="images/illus-039.png" width="425" height="700"
+ alt="I offered it to her with distinguished grace"
+ title="I offered it to her with distinguished grace" /></p>
+
+<p>Hereupon she came in sight, and I witnessed
+the somewhat unusual spectacle of
+my &lsquo;nut-brown mayde&rsquo; hopping, like a
+divine stork, on one foot, and ever and
+anon emitting a feminine shriek as the
+other, clad in a delicate silk stocking, came
+in contact with the ground. I rose quickly,
+and, polishing the patent leather ostentatiously
+inside and out with my handkerchief,
+I offered it to her with distinguished grace.
+She sat hurriedly down on the ground with
+as much dignity as possible, and then,
+<a name="png.040" id="png.040"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">28</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>recognising me as the person who picked
+up the contents of Aunt Celia&#8217;s bag, she
+said, dimpling in the most distracting
+manner (that&#8217;s another thing there ought
+to be a law against): &lsquo;Thank you again;
+you seem to be a sort of knight-errant.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Shall I&mdash;assist you?&rsquo; I asked. I might
+have known that this was going too far.
+Of course I didn&#8217;t suppose she would let
+me help her put the shoe on, but I thought&mdash;upon
+my soul, I don&#8217;t know what I
+thought, for she was about a million times
+prettier to-day than yesterday.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;No, thank you,&rsquo; she said, with polar
+frigidity. &lsquo;Good-afternoon.&rsquo; And she
+hopped back to her Aunt Celia without
+another word.</p>
+
+<p>I don&#8217;t know how to approach Aunt
+Celia. She is formidable. By a curious
+accident of feature, for which she is not
+in the least responsible, she always wears
+an unfortunate expression as of one
+<a name="png.041" id="png.041"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">29</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>perceiving some offensive odour in the immediate
+vicinity. This may be a mere
+accident of high birth. It is the kind of
+nose often seen in the &lsquo;first families,&rsquo; and
+her name betrays the fact that she is of
+good old Knickerbocker origin. We go
+to Wells to-morrow&mdash;at least, I think
+we do.</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Salisbury</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 3.</span></small></p>
+
+<p>I didn&#8217;t like Salisbury at first, but I
+find it is the sort of place that grows on
+one the longer one stays in it. I am quite
+sorry we must leave so soon, but Aunt
+Celia is always in haste to be gone. Bath
+may be interesting, but it is entirely out of
+the beaten path from here.</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Bath</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 7,</span><br
+ />The Best Hotel.</small></p>
+
+<p>I met him at Wells and again this
+<a name="png.042" id="png.042"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">30</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>afternoon here. We are always being
+ridiculous, and he is always rescuing us.
+Aunt Celia never really sees him, and
+thus never recognises him when he appears
+again, always as the flower of chivalry and
+guardian of ladies in distress. I will never
+again travel abroad without a man, even
+if I have to hire one from a feeble-minded
+asylum. We work like galley-slaves, Aunt
+Celia and I, finding out about trains and
+things. Neither of us can understand
+Bradshaw, and I can&#8217;t even grapple with
+the lesser intricacies of the A&nbsp;B&nbsp;C Railway
+Guide. The trains, so far as I can see,
+always arrive before they go out, and I
+can never tell whether to read up the page
+or down. It is certainly very queer that
+the stupidest man that breathes, one that
+barely escapes idiocy, can disentangle a
+railway guide when the brightest woman
+fails. Even the boots at the inn in Wells
+took my book, and, rubbing his frightfully
+<a name="png.043" id="png.043"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">31</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>dirty finger down the row of puzzling
+figures, found the place in a minute, and
+said, &lsquo;There ye are, miss.&rsquo; It is very
+humiliating. I suppose there are Bradshaw
+professorships in the English universities,
+but the boots cannot have imbibed
+his knowledge there. A traveller at
+<i>table d&#8217;hōte</i> dinner yesterday said there are
+three classes of Bradshaw trains in Great
+Britain: those that depart and never arrive,
+those that arrive but never depart, and
+those that can be caught in transit, going
+on, like the wheel of eternity, with neither
+beginning nor end. All the time I have
+left from the study of routes and hotels
+I spend on guide-books. Now, I&#8217;m sure
+that if any one of the men I know were
+here, he could tell me all that is necessary
+as we walk along the streets. I don&#8217;t say
+it in a frivolous or sentimental spirit in the
+least, but I do affirm that there is hardly
+any juncture in life where one isn&#8217;t better
+<a name="png.044" id="png.044"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">32</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>off for having a man about. I should
+never dare divulge this to Aunt Celia, for
+she doesn&#8217;t think men very nice. She
+excludes them from conversation as if
+they were indelicate subjects.</p>
+
+<p>But to go on, we were standing at the
+door of Ye Crowne and Keys at Wells,
+waiting for the fly which we had ordered
+to take us to the station, when who should
+drive up in a four-wheeler but the flower
+of chivalry. Aunt Celia was saying very
+audibly, &lsquo;We shall certainly miss the train,
+if the man doesn&#8217;t come at once.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Pray take this cab,&rsquo; said the flower of
+chivalry. &lsquo;I am not leaving for an hour
+or more.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Aunt Celia got in without a murmur; I
+sneaked in after her, not daring to lift my
+eyes. I don&#8217;t think she looked at him,
+though she did vouchsafe the remark that
+he seemed to be a civil sort of person.</p>
+
+<p>I was walking about by myself this
+<a name="png.045" id="png.045"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">33</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>afternoon. Aunt Celia and I had taken a
+long drive, and she had dropped me in a
+quaint old part of the town that I might
+have a brisk walk home for exercise.
+Suddenly it began to rain, which it is apt
+to do in England, between the showers,
+and at the same moment I espied a sign,
+&lsquo;Martha Huggins, Licensed Victualler.&rsquo; It
+was a nice, tidy little shop, with a fire on
+the hearth and flowers in the window, and
+I thought no one would catch me if I
+stepped inside to chat with Martha until
+the sun shone again. I fancied it would
+be delightful and Dickensy to talk quietly
+with a licensed victualler by the name of
+Martha Huggins.</p>
+
+<p>Just after I had settled myself, the flower
+of chivalry came in and ordered ale. I
+was disconcerted at being found in a
+dramshop alone, for I thought, after the
+bag episode, he might fancy us a family
+of inebriates. But he didn&#8217;t evince the
+<a name="png.046" id="png.046"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">34</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>slightest astonishment; he merely lifted
+his hat, and walked out after he had
+finished his ale. He certainly has the
+loveliest manners, and his hair is a more
+beautiful colour every time I see him.</p>
+
+<p>And so it goes on, and we never get any
+further. I like his politeness and his evident
+feeling that I can&#8217;t be flirted and
+talked with like a forward boarding-school
+miss; but I must say I don&#8217;t think much
+of his ingenuity. Of course one can&#8217;t have
+all the virtues, but if I were he, I would
+part with my distinguished air, my charming
+ease&mdash;in fact, almost anything, if I
+could have in exchange a few grains of
+common-sense, just enough to guide me in
+the practical affairs of life.</p>
+
+<p class="illus"><a name="png.047" id="png.047"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">35</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span><img src="images/illus-047.png" width="463" height="700"
+ alt="&ldquo;I was disconcerted at being found in a dramshop alone.&rdquo;"
+ title="&ldquo;I was disconcerted at being found in a dramshop alone.&rdquo;" /></p>
+
+<p>I wonder what he is? He might be an
+artist, but he doesn&#8217;t seem quite like an
+artist; or just a dilettante, but he doesn&#8217;t
+look in the least like a dilettante. Or he
+might be an architect; I think that is the
+<a name="png.048" id="png.048"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">36</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>most probable guess of all. Perhaps he is
+only &lsquo;going to be&rsquo; one of these things, for
+he can&#8217;t be more than twenty-five or
+twenty-six. Still, he looks as if he were
+something already; that is, he has a kind
+of self-reliance in his mien&mdash;not self-assertion,
+nor self-esteem, but belief in self, as
+if he were able, and knew that he was able,
+to conquer circumstances.</p>
+
+<p>Aunt Celia wouldn&#8217;t stay at Ye Olde
+Bell and Horns here. She looked under
+the bed (which, I insist, was an unfair test),
+and ordered her luggage to be taken instantly
+to the Grand Pump Room Hotel.</p>
+
+<p>Memoranda: <i>Bath became distinguished
+for its architecture and popular as a fashionable
+resort in the 17th century from the
+deserved repute of its waters and through
+the genius of two men, Wood the architect
+and Beau Nash, Master of Ceremonies.
+A true picture of the society of the period
+is found in Smollett&#8217;s &lsquo;Humphry Clinker&rsquo;,
+<a name="png.049" id="png.049"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">37</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>which Aunt Celia says she will read and
+tell me what is necessary. Remember the
+window of the seven lights in the Abbey
+Church, the one with the angels ascending
+and descending; also the rich Perp. chantry
+of Prior Bird, S. of chancel. It is Murray
+who calls it a Perp. chantry, not I.</i></p>
+
+
+<h3><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="date"><i>June</i> 8.</span></small></p>
+
+<p>It was very wet this morning, and I had
+breakfast in my room. The maid&#8217;s name
+is Hetty Precious, and I could eat almost
+anything brought me by such a beautifully
+named person. A little parcel postmarked
+Bath was on my tray, but as the address
+was printed, I have no clue to the sender.
+It was a wee copy of Jane Austen&#8217;s &lsquo;Persuasion,&rsquo;
+which I have read before, but
+was glad to see again, because I had forgotten
+that the scene is partly laid in Bath,
+<a name="png.050" id="png.050"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">38</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and now I can follow dear Anne and vain
+Sir Walter, hateful Elizabeth and scheming
+Mrs. Clay through Camden Place and
+Bath Street, Union Street, Milsom Street,
+and the Pump Yard. I can even follow
+them to the site of the White Hart Hotel,
+where the adorable Captain Wentworth
+wrote the letter to Anne. After more
+than two hundred pages of suspense, with
+what joy and relief did I read that letter!
+I wonder if Anne herself was any more
+excited than I?</p>
+
+<p>At first I thought Roderick Abbott sent
+the book, until I remembered that his
+literary taste is <cite>Puck</cite> in America and <cite>Pick-me-up</cite>
+and <cite>Tit-Bits</cite> in England; and now
+I don&#8217;t know what to think. I turned to
+Captain Wentworth&#8217;s letter in the last
+chapter but one&mdash;oh, it <em>is</em> a beautiful
+letter! I <em>wish</em> somebody would ever write
+me that he is &lsquo;half agony, half hope,&rsquo; and
+that I &lsquo;pierce his soul.&rsquo;  Of course, it
+<a name="png.051" id="png.051"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">39</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>would be wicked to pierce a soul, and of
+course they wouldn&#8217;t write that way nowadays;
+but there is something perfectly
+delightful about the expression.</p>
+
+<p>Well, when I found the place, what do
+you suppose? Some of the sentences in
+the letter seem to be underlined ever so
+faintly; so faintly, indeed, that I cannot
+quite decide whether it&#8217;s my imagination
+or a lead-pencil, but this is the way it
+seems to look:</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I can listen no longer in silence. <u>I
+must speak to you by such means as are
+within my reach.</u> You pierce my soul. I
+am half agony, half hope. Tell me not
+that I am too late, that such precious feelings
+are gone for ever. I offer myself to
+you again with a heart even more your
+own than when you almost broke it, eight
+years and a half ago. Dare not say that
+man forgets sooner than woman, that his
+love has an earlier death. I have loved
+<a name="png.052" id="png.052"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">40</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>none but you. Unjust I may have been,
+weak and resentful I have been, but never
+inconstant. <u>You alone have brought me
+to Bath. For you alone, I think and
+plan. Have you not seen this? Can you
+fail to have understood my wishes? I had
+not waited even these ten days, could I
+have read your feelings, as I think you
+must have penetrated mine.</u> I can hardly
+write. I am every instant hearing something
+which overpowers me. You sink
+your voice, but I can distinguish the tones
+of that voice when they would be lost on
+others. Too good, too excellent creature!
+You do us justice indeed. You do believe
+that there is true attachment and constancy
+among men. Believe it to be most fervent,
+most undeviating, in</p>
+
+<p class="rt">&lsquo;F. W.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="tb">Of course, this means nothing. Somebody
+has been reading the book, and
+<a name="png.053" id="png.053"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">41</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>marked it idly as he (or she) read. I can
+imagine someone&#8217;s underlining a splendid
+sentiment like &lsquo;Dare not say that man forgets
+sooner than woman!&rsquo; but why should
+a reader lay stress on such a simple sentence
+as &lsquo;You alone brought me to Bath&rsquo;?</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Gloucester</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 10,</span><br
+ />The Golden Slipper.</small></p>
+
+<p>Nothing accomplished yet. Her aunt
+is a Van Tyck, and a stiff one, too. I am
+a Copley, and that delays matters. Much
+depends upon the manner of approach.
+A false move would be fatal. We have
+seven more towns (as per itinerary), and if
+their thirst for cathedrals isn&#8217;t slaked when
+these are finished, we have the entire Continent
+to do. If I could only succeed in
+making an impression on the retina of
+Aunt Celia&#8217;s eye! Though I have been
+under her feet for ten days, she never yet
+<a name="png.054" id="png.054"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">42</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>has observed me. This absent-mindedness
+of hers serves me ill now, but it may
+prove a blessing later on.</p>
+
+<p>I made two modest moves on the chessboard
+of Fate yesterday, but they were so
+very modest and mysterious that I almost
+fear they were never noticed.</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Gloucester</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 10,</span><br
+ />In Impossible Lodgings chosen by Me.</small></p>
+
+<p>Something else awfully exciting has
+happened.</p>
+
+<p>When we walked down the railway platform
+at Bath, I saw a pink placard pasted
+on the window of a first-class carriage. It
+had &lsquo;<span class="allsc">VAN TYCK: RESERVED</span>,&rsquo; written on it,
+after the English fashion, and we took our
+places without question. Presently Aunt
+Celia&#8217;s eyes and mine alighted at the same
+moment on a bunch of yellow primroses
+<a name="png.055" id="png.055"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">43</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>pinned on the stuffed back of the most
+comfortable seat next the window.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;They do things so well in England,&rsquo;
+said Aunt Celia admiringly. &lsquo;The landlord
+must have sent my name to the guard&mdash;you
+see the advantage of stopping at the
+best hotels, Katharine&mdash;but one would not
+have suspected him capable of such a refined
+attention as the bunch of flowers.
+You must take a few of them, dear; you
+are so fond of primroses.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Oh! I am having a delicious time
+abroad! I do think England is the most
+interesting country in the world; and as
+for the cathedral towns, how can anyone
+bear to live anywhere else?</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Oxford</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 12,</span><br
+ />The Mitre.</small></p>
+
+<p>It was here in Oxford that a grain of
+common-sense entered the brain of the
+<a name="png.056" id="png.056"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">44</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>flower of chivalry; you might call it the
+dawn of reason. We had spent part of
+the morning in High Street, &lsquo;the noblest
+old street in England,&rsquo; as our dear Hawthorne
+calls it. As Wordsworth had
+written a sonnet about it, Aunt Celia was
+armed for the fray&mdash;a volume of Wordsworth
+in one hand, and one of Hawthorne
+in the other. (I wish Baedeker and
+Murray didn&#8217;t give such full information
+about what one ought to read before one
+can approach these places in a proper
+spirit.) When we had done High Street,
+we went to Magdalen College, and sat
+down on a bench in Addison&#8217;s Walk,
+where Aunt Celia proceeded to store my
+mind with the principal facts of Addison&#8217;s
+career, and his influence on the literature
+of the something or other century. The
+cramming process over, we wandered
+along, and came upon &lsquo;him&rsquo; sketching a
+shady corner of the walk.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.057" id="png.057"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">45</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Aunt Celia went up behind him, and,
+Van Tyck though she is, she could not
+restrain her admiration of his work. I
+was surprised myself; I didn&#8217;t suppose so
+good-looking a youth could do such good
+work. I retired to a safe distance, and
+they chatted together. He offered her
+the sketch; she refused to take advantage
+of his kindness. He said he would &lsquo;dash
+off&rsquo; another that evening and bring it to
+our hotel&mdash;&lsquo;so glad to do anything for a
+fellow-countryman,&rsquo; etc. I peeped from
+behind a tree and saw him give her his
+card. It was an awful moment; I trembled,
+but she read it with unmistakable approval,
+and gave him her own with an expression
+that meant, &lsquo;Yours is good, but beat that
+if you can!&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>She called to me, and I appeared. Mr.
+John Quincy Copley, Cambridge, was presented
+to her niece, Miss Katharine
+Schuyler, New York. It was over, and a
+<a name="png.058" id="png.058"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">46</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>very small thing to take so long about,
+too.</p>
+
+<p>He is an architect, and, of course, has a
+smooth path into Aunt Celia&#8217;s affections.
+Theological students, ministers, missionaries,
+heroes, and martyrs she may distrust,
+but architects never!</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;He is an architect, my dear Katharine,
+and he is a Copley,&rsquo; she told me afterwards.
+&lsquo;I never knew a Copley who was not respectable,
+and many of them have been more.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>After the introduction was over, Aunt
+Celia asked him guilelessly if he had visited
+any other of the English cathedrals. Any
+others, indeed!&mdash;this to a youth who had
+been all but in her lap for a fortnight. It
+was a blow, but he rallied bravely, and,
+with an amused look in my direction,
+replied discreetly that he had visited most
+of them at one time or another. I refused
+to let him see that I had ever noticed him
+before&mdash;that is, particularly.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.059" id="png.059"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">47</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>I wish I had had an opportunity of
+talking to him of our plans, but just as I
+was leading the conversation into the
+proper channels, the waiter came in for
+breakfast orders&mdash;as if it mattered what
+one had for breakfast, or whether one had
+any at all. I can understand an interest
+in dinner or even in luncheon, but not in
+breakfast; at least not when more important
+things are under consideration.</p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p>
+
+<p>Memoranda: <i>&lsquo;The very stones and
+mortar of this historic town seem impregnated
+with the spirit of restful antiquity.&rsquo;</i>
+(Extract from one of Aunt Celia&#8217;s letters.)
+<i>Among the great men who have studied
+here are the Prince of Wales, Duke of
+Wellington, Gladstone, Sir Robert Peel,
+Sir Philip Sidney, William Penn, John
+Locke, the two Wesleys, Ruskin, Ben Jonson,
+and Thomas Otway.</i> (Look Otway
+up.)</p>
+
+<h3><a name="png.060" id="png.060"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">48</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Oxford</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 13,</span><br
+ />The Angel.</small></p>
+
+<p>I have done it, and if I hadn&#8217;t been a
+fool and a coward I might have done it a
+week ago, and spared myself a good deal
+of delicious torment. &lsquo;How sweet must
+be Love&#8217;s self possessed, when but Love&#8217;s
+shadows are so rich in joy!&rsquo; or something
+of that sort.</p>
+
+<p>I have just given two hours to a sketch
+of Addison&#8217;s Walk, and carried it to Aunt
+Celia at the Mitre. Object, to find out
+whether they make a long stay in London
+(our next point), and, if so, where. It
+seems they stop only a night. I said in
+the course of conversation:</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;So Miss Schuyler is willing to forego a
+London season? Marvellous self-denial!&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;My niece did not come to Europe for
+a London season,&rsquo; replied Miss Van Tyck.
+&lsquo;We go through London this time merely as
+<a name="png.061" id="png.061"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">49</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>a cathedral town, simply because it chances
+to be where it is geographically. We shall
+visit St. Paul&#8217;s and Westminster Abbey,
+and then go directly on, that our chain of
+impressions may have absolute continuity
+and be free from any disturbing elements.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Oh, but she is lovely, is Aunt Celia!
+London a cathedral town!</p>
+
+<p>Now, for my part, I should like to drop
+St. Paul&#8217;s for once, and omit Westminster
+Abbey for the moment, and sit on the top
+of a bus with Miss Schuyler or in a hansom
+jogging up and down Piccadilly. The
+hansom should have bouquets of paper-flowers
+in the windows, and the horse
+should wear carnations in his headstall,
+and Miss Schuyler should ask me questions,
+to which I should always know the right
+answers. This would be but a prelude,
+for I should wish later to ask her questions
+to which I should hope she would also
+know the right answers.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.062" id="png.062"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">50</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Heigho! I didn&#8217;t suppose that anything
+could be lovelier than that girl&#8217;s smile, but
+there is, and it is her voice.</p>
+
+<p>I shall call there again to-morrow morning.
+I don&#8217;t know on what pretext, but I
+shall call, for my visit was curtailed this
+evening by the entrance of the waiter, who
+asked what they would have for breakfast.
+Miss Van Tyck said she would be disengaged
+in a moment, so naturally I
+departed, with a longing to knock the
+impudent waiter&#8217;s head against the uncomprehending
+wall. Breakfast indeed!
+A fellow can breakfast regularly, and yet
+be in a starving condition.</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Oxford</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 14,</span><br
+ />The Angel.</small></p>
+
+<p>I have just called. They have gone!
+Gone hours before they intended! How
+shall I find her in London?</p>
+
+<h3><a name="png.063" id="png.063"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">51</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">London</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 15,</span><br
+ />Walsingham House Hotel.</small></p>
+
+<p>As a cathedral town London leaves
+much to be desired. There are too many
+hotels, too many people, and the distances
+are too great. For ten hours I kept a
+hansom galloping between St. Paul&#8217;s and
+Westminster Abbey, with no result. I
+am now going to Ely, where I shall stay
+in the cathedral from morning till night,
+and have my meals brought to me on a
+tray by the verger.</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Ely</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 15,</span><br
+ />At Miss Kettlestring&#8217;s lodgings.</small></p>
+
+<p>I have lost him! He was not at St.
+Paul&#8217;s or Westminster in London&mdash;great,
+cruel, busy, brutal London, that could
+swallow up any precious thing and make
+<a name="png.064" id="png.064"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">52</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>no sign. And he is not here! They say
+it is a very fine cathedral.</p>
+
+<p>Memoranda: <i>The Octagon is perhaps
+the most beautiful and original design to be
+found in the whole range of Gothic architecture.
+Remember also the retrochoir.
+The lower tier of windows consists of three
+long lancets, with groups of Purbeck shafts
+at the angles; the upper, of five lancets,
+diminishing from the centre, and set back,
+as in the clerestory, within an arcade supported
+by shafts.</i> (I don&#8217;t believe even he
+could make head or tail of this.) <i>Remember
+the curious bosses under the brackets
+of the stone altar in the Alcock Chapel.
+They represent ammonites projecting from
+their shells and biting each other.</i> (If I
+were an ammonite I know I should bite
+Aunt Celia. Look up ammonite.)</p>
+
+<h3><a name="png.065" id="png.065"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">53</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Ely</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 18,</span><br
+ />The Lamb Hotel.</small></p>
+
+<p>I cannot find her! Am racked with
+rheumatic pains sitting in this big, empty,
+solitary, hollow, reverberating, damp, desolate,
+deserted cathedral hour after hour.
+On to Peterborough this evening.</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Peterborough</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 18.</span></small></p>
+
+<p>He is not here. The cathedral, even
+the celebrated west front, seems to me
+somewhat overrated. Catherine of Aragon
+(or one of those Henry the Eighth wives)
+is buried here, also Mary Queen of Scots;
+but I am tired of looking at graves,
+viciously tired, too, of writing in this
+trumpery note-book. We move on this
+afternoon.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="png.066" id="png.066"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">54</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Peterborough</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 19.</span></small></p>
+
+<p>A few more days of this modern Love
+Chase will unfit me for professional work.
+Tried to draw the roof of the choir,
+a good specimen of early Perp., and
+failed. Studied the itinerary again to see
+if it had any unsuspected suggestions in
+cipher. No go! York and Durham were
+double-starred by the Aunt Celia&#8217;s curate
+as places for long stops. Perhaps we shall
+meet again there.</p>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Lincoln</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 22,</span><br
+ />The Black Boy Inn.</small></p>
+
+<p>I am stopping at a beastly little hole,
+which has the one merit of being opposite
+Miss Schuyler&#8217;s lodgings, for I have found
+her at last. My sketch-book has deteriorated
+in artistic value during the last two
+weeks. Many of its pages, while interesting
+<a name="png.067" id="png.067"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">55</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>to me as reminiscences, will hardly do
+for family or studio exhibition. If I should
+label them, the result would be something
+like this:</p>
+
+<p>1. Sketch of a footstool and desk where
+I first saw Miss Schuyler kneeling.</p>
+
+<p>2. Sketch of a carved oak chair, Miss
+Schuyler sitting in it.</p>
+
+<p>3. &lsquo;Angel choir.&rsquo;  Heads of Miss
+Schuyler introduced into the carving.</p>
+
+<p>4. Altar screen. A row of full-length
+Miss Schuylers holding lilies.</p>
+
+<p>5. Tomb of a bishop, where I tied Miss
+Schuyler&#8217;s shoe.</p>
+
+<p>6. Tomb of another bishop, where I
+had to tie it again because I did it so
+badly the first time.</p>
+
+<p>7. Sketch of the shoe, the shoe-lace
+worn out with much tying.</p>
+
+<p>8. Sketch of the blessed verger who
+called her &lsquo;Madam&rsquo; when we were walking
+together.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.068" id="png.068"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">56</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>9. Sketch of her blush when he did it;
+the prettiest thing in the world.</p>
+
+<p>10. Sketch of J. Q. Copley contemplating
+the ruins of his heart.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;How are the mighty fallen!&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Lincoln</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 23,</span><br
+ />At Miss Smallpage&#8217;s, Castle Garden.</small></p>
+
+<p>This is one of the charmingest towns
+we have visited, and I am so glad Aunt
+Celia has a letter to the Canon in residence,
+because it may keep her contented.</p>
+
+<p>We walked up Steep Hill this morning
+to see the Jews&#8217; house, but long before we
+reached it I had seen Mr. Copley sitting
+on a camp-stool, with his easel in front of
+him. Wonderful to relate, Aunt Celia
+recognised him, and was most cordial in
+her greeting. As for me, I was never so
+embarrassed in my life. I felt as if he
+<a name="png.069" id="png.069"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">57</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>knew that I had expected to see him in
+London and Ely and Peterborough, though,
+of course, he <em>couldn&#8217;t</em> know it, even if he
+looked for, and missed, me in those three
+dreary and over-estimated places. He
+had made a most beautiful drawing of the
+Jews&#8217; House, and completed his conquest
+of Aunt Celia by presenting it to her. I
+should like to know when my turn is
+coming; but, anyway, she asked him to
+luncheon, and he came, and we had such a
+cosy, homelike meal together. He is even
+nicer than he looks, which is saying a good
+deal more than I should, even to a locked
+book. Aunt Celia dozed a little after
+luncheon, and Mr. Copley almost talked in
+whispers, he was so afraid of disturbing
+her nap. It is just in these trifling things
+that one can tell a true man&mdash;courtesy to
+elderly people and consideration for their
+weaknesses. He has done something in
+the world; I was sure that he had. He
+<a name="png.070" id="png.070"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">58</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>has a little income of his own, but he is too
+proud and ambitious to be an idler. He
+looked so manly when he talked about it,
+standing up straight and strong in his
+knickerbockers. I like men in knickerbockers.
+Aunt Celia doesn&#8217;t. She says
+she doesn&#8217;t see how a well-brought-up
+Copley can go about with his legs in that
+condition. I would give worlds to know
+how Aunt Celia ever unbent sufficiently to
+get engaged. But, as I was saying, Mr.
+Copley has accomplished something, young
+as he is. He has built three picturesque
+suburban churches suitable for weddings,
+and a State lunatic asylum.</p>
+
+<p>Aunt Celia says we shall have no worthy
+architecture until every building is made
+an exquisitely sincere representation of its
+deepest purpose&mdash;a symbol, as it were, of
+its indwelling meaning. I should think it
+would be very difficult to design a lunatic
+asylum on that basis, but I didn&#8217;t dare say
+<a name="png.071" id="png.071"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">59</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>so, as the idea seemed to present no incongruities
+to Mr. Copley. Their conversation
+is absolutely sublimated when they
+get to talking of architecture. I have just
+copied two quotations from Emerson, and
+am studying them every night for fifteen
+minutes before I go to sleep. I&#8217;m going
+to quote them some time offhand, just after
+matins, when we are wandering about the
+cathedral grounds. The first is this: &lsquo;The
+Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone,
+subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony
+in man. The mountain of granite
+blooms into an eternal flower, with the
+lightness and delicate finish as well as the
+aerial proportion and perspective of vegetable
+beauty.&rsquo;  Then when he has recovered
+from the shock of this, here is my
+second: &lsquo;Nor can any lover of nature
+enter the old piles of English cathedrals
+without feeling that the forest overpowered
+the mind of the builder, and that his chisel,
+<a name="png.072" id="png.072"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">60</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns,
+its spikes of flowers, its locust, elm, pine,
+and spruce.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Memoranda: <i>Lincoln choir is an example
+of Early English or First Pointed, which
+can generally be told from something else
+by bold projecting buttresses and dog-tooth
+moulding round the abacusses.</i> (The plural
+is my own, and it does not look right.)
+<i>Lincoln Castle was the scene of many prolonged
+sieges, and was once taken by Oliver
+Cromwell.</i></p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">York</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 26,</span><br
+ />The Black Swan.</small></p>
+
+<p>Kitty Schuyler is the concentrated essence
+of feminine witchery. Intuition
+strong, logic weak, and the two qualities
+so balanced as to produce an indefinable
+charm; will-power large, but docility equal,
+<a name="png.073" id="png.073"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">61</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>if a man is clever enough to know how to
+manage her; knowledge of facts absolutely
+<i>nil</i>, but she is exquisitely intelligent in
+spite of it. She has a way of evading,
+escaping, eluding, and then gives you an
+intoxicating hint of sudden and complete
+surrender. She is divinely innocent, but
+roguishness saves her from insipidity.
+Her looks? She looks as you would imagine
+a person might look who possessed
+these graces; and she is worth looking at,
+though every time I do it I have a rush
+of love to the head. When you find a
+girl who combines all the qualities you
+have imagined in the ideal, and who has
+added a dozen or two on her own account,
+merely to distract you past all hope, why
+stand up and try to resist her charm?
+Down on your knees like a man, say I!</p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p>
+
+<p>I&#8217;m getting to adore Aunt Celia.  I
+didn&#8217;t care for her at first, but she is so
+<a name="png.074" id="png.074"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">62</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>deliciously blind. Anything more exquisitely
+unserviceable as a chaperon I
+can&#8217;t imagine. Absorbed in antiquity, she
+ignores the babble of contemporaneous
+lovers. That any man could look at Kitty
+when he could look at a cathedral passes
+her comprehension. I do not presume
+too greatly on her absent-mindedness,
+however, lest she should turn unexpectedly
+and rend me. I always remember that
+inscription on the backs of the little mechanical
+French toys: &lsquo;Quoiqu&#8217;elle soit
+trčs solidement montée, il faut ne pas
+brutaliser la machine.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>And so my courtship progresses under
+Aunt Celia&#8217;s very nose. I say &lsquo;progresses&rsquo;;
+but it is impossible to speak
+with any certainty of courting, for the
+essence of that gentle craft is hope, rooted
+in labour and trained by love.</p>
+
+<p class="illus"><a name="png.075" id="png.075"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">63</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span><img src="images/illus-075.png" width="406" height="700"
+ alt="She ignores the babble of contemporaneous lovers"
+ title="She ignores the babble of contemporaneous lovers" /></p>
+
+<p>I set out to propose to her during service
+this afternoon by writing my feelings
+<a name="png.076" id="png.076"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">64</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>on the flyleaf of the hymn-book, or something
+like that; but I knew that Aunt
+Celia would never forgive such blasphemy,
+and I thought that Kitty herself
+might consider it wicked. Besides, if she
+should chance to accept me, there was
+nothing I could do in a cathedral to relieve
+my feelings. No; if she ever accepts me,
+I wish it to be in a large, vacant spot of
+the universe, peopled by two only, and
+those two so indistinguishably blended, as
+it were, that they would appear as one to
+the casual observer. So I practised repression,
+though the wall of my reserve is
+worn to the thinness of thread-paper, and
+I tried to keep my mind on the droning
+minor canon, and not to look at her, &lsquo;for
+that way madness lies.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p>
+
+<h3><a name="png.077" id="png.077"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">65</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">York</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>June</i> 28,</span><br
+ />High Petergate Street.</small></p>
+
+<p>My taste is so bad! I just begin to
+realize it, and I am feeling my &lsquo;growing
+pains,&rsquo; like Gwendolen in &lsquo;Daniel Deronda.&rsquo;
+I admired the stained glass in the Lincoln
+Cathedral the other day, especially the
+Nuremberg window. I thought Mr.
+Copley looked pained, but he said nothing.
+When I went to my room, I consulted a
+book and found that all the glass in that
+cathedral is very modern and very bad,
+and the Nuremberg window is the worst
+of all. Aunt Celia says she hopes that it
+will be a warning to me to read before I
+speak; but Mr. Copley says no, that the
+world would lose more in one way than it
+would gain in the other. I tried my
+quotations this morning, and stuck fast in
+the middle of the first.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Copley thinks I have been feeing
+<a name="png.078" id="png.078"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">66</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the vergers too liberally, so I wrote a song
+about it called &lsquo;The Ballad of the Vergers
+and the Foolish Virgin,&rsquo; which I sang to
+my guitar. Mr. Copley thinks it is cleverer
+than anything he ever did with his pencil.
+Of course, he says that only to be agreeable;
+but really, whenever he talks to me
+in that way, I can almost hear myself
+purring with pleasure.</p>
+
+<p>We go to two services a day in the
+minster, and sometimes I sit quite alone in
+the nave drinking in the music as it floats
+out from behind the choir-screen. The
+Litany and the Commandments are so
+beautiful heard in this way, and I never
+listen to the fresh, young voices chanting
+&lsquo;Write all these Thy laws in our hearts,
+we beseech Thee,&rsquo; without wanting passionately
+to be good. I love, too, the
+joyful burst of music in the <i>Te Deum</i>:
+&lsquo;Thou didst open the kingdom of heaven
+to all believers.&rsquo; I like that word &lsquo;all&rsquo;;
+<a name="png.079" id="png.079"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">67</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>it takes in foolish me, as well as wise Aunt
+Celia.</p>
+
+<p>And yet, with all its pomp and magnificence,
+the service does not help me quite
+so much nor stir up the deep places, in me
+so quickly as dear old Dr. Kyle&#8217;s simpler
+prayers and talks in the village meeting-house
+where I went as a child. Mr.
+Copley has seen it often, and made a little
+picture of it for me, with its white steeple
+and the elm-tree branches hanging over it.
+If I ever have a husband I should wish him
+to have memories like my own. It would
+be very romantic to marry an Italian
+marquis or a Hungarian count, but must
+it not be a comfort to two people to look
+back on the same past?</p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p>
+
+<p>We all went to an evening service last
+night. It was an &lsquo;occasion,&rsquo; and a famous
+organist played the Minster organ.</p>
+
+<p>I wonder why choir-boys are so often
+<a name="png.080" id="png.080"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">68</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>playful and fidgety and uncanonical in behaviour?
+Does the choirmaster advertise
+&lsquo;Naughty boys preferred,&rsquo; or do musical
+voices commonly exist in unregenerate
+bodies? With all the opportunities they
+must have outside of the cathedral to exchange
+those objects of beauty and utility
+usually found in boys&#8217; pockets, there is
+seldom a service where they do not barter
+penknives, old coins, or tops, generally
+during the Old Testament reading. A
+dozen little black-surpliced &lsquo;probationers&rsquo;
+sit together in a seat just beneath the choir-boys,
+and one of them spent his time this
+evening in trying to pull a loose tooth from
+its socket. The task not only engaged all
+his own powers, but made him the centre of
+attraction for the whole probationary row.</p>
+
+<p>Coming home, Aunt Celia walked ahead
+with Mrs. Benedict, who keeps turning up
+at the most unexpected moments. She&#8217;s
+going to build a Gothicky memorial chapel
+<a name="png.081" id="png.081"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">69</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>somewhere, and is making studies for it.
+I don&#8217;t like her in the least, but four is
+certainly a more comfortable number than
+three. I scarcely ever have a moment
+alone with Mr. Copley, for, go where I
+will and do what I please, as Aunt Celia
+has the most perfect confidence in my indiscretion,
+she is always <i>en évidence</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Just as we were turning into the quiet
+little street where we are lodging, I said:</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Oh dear, I wish that I really knew
+something about architecture!&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;If you don&#8217;t know anything about it,
+you are certainly responsible for a good
+deal of it,&rsquo; said Mr. Copley.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I? How do you mean?&rsquo; I asked
+quite innocently, because I couldn&#8217;t see
+how he could twist such a remark as that
+into anything like sentiment.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I have never built so many castles in
+my life as since I&#8217;ve known you, Miss
+Schuyler,&rsquo; he said.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.082" id="png.082"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">70</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>&lsquo;Oh,&rsquo; I answered as lightly as I could,
+&lsquo;air-castles don&#8217;t count.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;The building of air-castles is an innocent
+amusement enough, I suppose,&rsquo; he
+said; &lsquo;but I&#8217;m committing the folly of
+living in mine. I&mdash;&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Then I was frightened. When, all at
+once, you find you have something precious
+that you only dimly suspected was to
+be yours, you almost wish it hadn&#8217;t come
+so soon. But just at that moment Mrs.
+Benedict called to us, and came tramping
+back from the gate, and hooked her supercilious,
+patronizing arm in Mr. Copley&#8217;s,
+and asked him into the sitting-room to
+talk over the &lsquo;lady-chapel&rsquo; in her new
+memorial church. Then Aunt Celia told
+me they would excuse me, as I had had a
+wearisome day; and there was nothing for
+me to do but to go to bed, like a snubbed
+child, and wonder if I should ever know
+the end of that sentence. And I listened
+<a name="png.083" id="png.083"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">71</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>at the head of the stairs, shivering, but all
+that I could hear was that Mrs. Benedict
+asked Mr. Copley to be her own architect.
+Her architect, indeed! That woman ought
+not to be at large&mdash;so rich and good-looking
+and unconscientious!</p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">York</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>July</i> 5.</span></small></p>
+
+<p>I had just established myself comfortably
+near to Miss Van Tyck&#8217;s hotel, and found
+a landlady after my own heart in Mrs.
+Pickles, No. 6, Micklegate, when Miss
+Van Tyck, aided and abetted, I fear, by
+the romantic Miss Schuyler, elected to
+change her quarters, and I, of course, had
+to change too. Mine is at present a
+laborious (but not unpleasant) life. The
+causes of Miss Schuyler&#8217;s removal, as I
+have been given to understand by the lady
+herself, were some particularly pleasing
+window-boxes in a lodging in High Petergate
+<a name="png.084" id="png.084"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">72</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Street; boxes overflowing with pink
+geraniums and white field-daisies. No one
+(she explains) could have looked at this
+house without desiring to live in it; and
+when she discovered, during a somewhat
+exhaustive study of the premises, that the
+maid&#8217;s name was Susan Strangeways, and
+that she was promised in marriage to a
+brewer&#8217;s apprentice called Sowerbutt, she
+went back to her conventional hotel and
+persuaded her aunt to remove without
+delay. If Miss Schuyler were offered a
+room at the Punchbowl Inn in the Gillygate
+and a suite at the Grand Royal Hotel
+in Broad Street, she would choose the
+former unhesitatingly; just as she refused
+refreshment at the best caterer&#8217;s this afternoon
+and dragged Mrs. Benedict and me
+into &lsquo;The Little Snug,&rsquo; where an alluring
+sign over the door announced &lsquo;A Homely
+Cup of Tea for Twopence.&rsquo; But she would
+outgrow all that; or, if she didn&#8217;t, I have
+<a name="png.085" id="png.085"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">73</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>common-sense enough for two; or if I
+hadn&#8217;t, I shouldn&#8217;t care a hang.</p>
+
+<p>Is it not a curious dispensation of Providence
+that, just when Aunt Celia is confined
+to her room with a cold, Mrs. Benedict
+should join our party and spend her
+days in our company? She drove to the
+Merchants&#8217; Hall and the Cavalry Barracks
+with us, she walked on the city walls with
+us, she even dared the &lsquo;homely&rsquo; tea at &lsquo;The
+Little Snug&rsquo;; and at that moment I determined
+I wouldn&#8217;t build her memorial church
+for her, even at a most princely profit.</p>
+
+<p>On crossing Lendal Bridge we saw the
+river Ouse running placidly through the
+town, and a lot of little green boats moored
+at a landing-stage.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;How delightful it would be to row for
+an hour!&rsquo; exclaimed Miss Schuyler.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Oh, do you think so, in those tippy
+boats on a strange river?&rsquo; remonstrated
+Mrs. Benedict.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.086" id="png.086"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">74</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>The moment I suspected she was afraid
+of the water, I lured her to the landing-stage
+and engaged a boat.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;It&#8217;s a pity that that large flat one has a
+leak, otherwise it would have held three
+nicely; but I dare say we can be comfortable
+in one of the little ones,&rsquo; I said doubtfully.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Shan&#8217;t we be too heavy for it?&rsquo; Mrs.
+Benedict inquired timidly.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Oh, I don&#8217;t think so. We&#8217;ll get in
+and try it. If we find it sinks under our
+weight we won&#8217;t risk it,&rsquo; I replied, spurred
+on by such twinkles in Miss Schuyler&#8217;s
+eyes as blinded me to everything else.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I really don&#8217;t think your aunt would
+like you to venture, Miss Schuyler,&rsquo; said
+the marplot.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Oh, as to that, she knows I am accustomed
+to boating,&rsquo; replied Miss Schuyler.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;And Miss Schuyler is such an excellent
+swimmer,&rsquo; I added.</p>
+
+<p>Whereupon the marplot and killjoy
+<a name="png.087" id="png.087"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">75</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>remarked that if it were a question of
+swimming she should prefer to remain at
+home, as she had large responsibilities
+devolving upon her, and her life was in
+a sense not her own to fling away as she
+might like.</p>
+
+<p>I assured her solemnly that she was
+quite, quite right, and pushed off before
+she could change her mind.</p>
+
+<p>After a long interval of silence, Miss
+Schuyler observed in the voice, accompanied
+by the smile and the glance of the
+eye, that &lsquo;did&rsquo; for me the moment I was
+first exposed to them:</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;You oughtn&#8217;t to have said that about my
+swimming, because I can&#8217;t a bit, you know.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I was justified,&rsquo; I answered gloomily.
+&lsquo;I have borne too much to-day, and if she
+had come with us and had fallen overboard,
+I might have been tempted to hold
+her down with the oar.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Whereupon Miss Schuyler gave way to
+<a name="png.088" id="png.088"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">76</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>such whole-hearted mirth that she nearly
+upset the boat. I almost wish she had!
+I want to swim, sink, die, or do any other
+mortal thing for her.</p>
+
+<p>We had a heavenly hour. It was only
+an hour, but it was the first time I have
+had any real chance to direct hot shot at
+the walls of the maiden castle. I regret
+to state that they stood remarkably firm.
+Of course, I don&#8217;t wish to batter them
+down; I want them to melt under the
+warmth of my attack.</p>
+
+
+<h3><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">York</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>July</i> 5.</span></small></p>
+
+<p>We had a lovely sail on the river Ouse
+this afternoon. Mrs. Benedict was timid
+about boating, and did not come with us.
+As a usual thing, I hate a cowardly
+woman, but her lack of courage is the
+nicest trait in her whole character; I might
+almost say the only nice trait.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.089" id="png.089"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">77</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Mr. Copley tried in every way, short of
+asking me a direct question, to find out
+whether I had received the marked copy
+of &lsquo;Persuasion&rsquo; in Bath, but I evaded the
+point.</p>
+
+<p>Just as we were at the door of my
+lodging, and he was saying good-bye, I
+couldn&#8217;t resist the temptation of asking:</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Why, before you knew us at all, did
+you put &ldquo;Miss Van Tyck: Reserved,&rdquo; on
+the window of the railway carriage at Bath?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>He was embarrassed for a moment, and
+then he said:</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Well, she <em>is</em>, you know, if you come to
+that; and, besides, I didn&#8217;t dare tell the
+guard the placard I really wanted to put on.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I shouldn&#8217;t think a lack of daring your
+most obvious fault,&rsquo; I said cuttingly.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Perhaps not; but there are limits to
+most things, and I hadn&#8217;t the pluck to
+paste on a pink paper with &ldquo;Miss Schuyler:
+Engaged,&rdquo; on it.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.090" id="png.090"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">78</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>He disappeared suddenly just then, as if
+he wasn&#8217;t equal to facing my displeasure,
+and I am glad he did, for I was too
+embarrassed for words.</p>
+
+<p>Memoranda: <i>In the height of roofs,
+nave, and choir, York is first of English
+cathedrals.</i></p>
+
+
+<h3><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Durham</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>July something or other</i>,</span><br
+ />At Farmer Hendry&#8217;s.</small></p>
+
+<p>We left York this morning, and arrived
+in Durham about eleven o&#8217;clock. It seems
+there is some sort of an election going on
+in the town, and there was not a single fly
+at the station. Mr. Copley looked about
+in every direction, but neither horse nor
+vehicle was to be had for love or money.
+At last we started to walk to the village,
+Mr. Copley so laden with our hand-luggage
+that he resembled a pack mule.</p>
+
+<p>We called first at the Three Tuns, where
+<a name="png.091" id="png.091"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">79</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>they still keep up the old custom of giving
+a wee glass of cherry-brandy to each guest
+on his arrival; but, alas! they were
+crowded, and we were turned from the
+hospitable door. We then made a tour
+of the inns, but not a single room was to
+be had, not for that night, nor for two
+days ahead, on account of that same
+election.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Hadn&#8217;t we better go on to Edinburgh,
+Aunt Celia?&rsquo; I asked, as we were resting
+in the door of the Jolly Sailor.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Edinburgh? Never!&rsquo; she replied.
+&lsquo;Do you suppose that I would voluntarily
+spend a Sunday in those bare Presbyterian
+churches until the memory of these past
+ideal weeks has faded a little from my
+memory? What! leave out Durham and
+spoil the set?&rsquo; (In her agitation and disappointment
+she spoke of the cathedrals
+as if they were souvenir spoons.) &lsquo;I intended
+to stay here for a week or more,
+<a name="png.092" id="png.092"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">80</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and write up a record of our entire trip
+from Winchester while the impressions
+were fresh in my mind.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;And I had intended doing the same
+thing,&rsquo; said Mr. Copley. &lsquo;That is, I
+hoped to finish off my previous sketches,
+which are in a frightful state of incompletion,
+and spend a good deal of time on
+the interior of this cathedral, which is unusually
+beautiful.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>At this juncture Aunt Celia disappeared
+for a moment to ask the barmaid if, in her
+opinion, the constant consumption of malt
+liquors prevents a more dangerous indulgence
+in brandy and whisky. She is
+gathering statistics, but as the barmaids
+can never collect their thoughts while they
+are drawing ale, Aunt Celia proceeds
+slowly.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;For my part,&rsquo; said I, with mock humility,
+&lsquo;I am a docile person, who never
+has any intentions of her own, but who
+<a name="png.093" id="png.093"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">81</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>yields herself sweetly to the intentions of
+other people in her immediate vicinity.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Are you?&rsquo; asked Mr. Copley, taking
+out his pencil.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Yes, I said so. What are you doing?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Merely taking note of your statement,
+that&#8217;s all. Now, Miss Van Tyck&rsquo; (of
+course Aunt Celia appeared at this delightful
+moment), &lsquo;I have a plan to propose.
+I was here last summer with a
+couple of Harvard men, and we lodged at
+a farmhouse about a mile distant from the
+cathedral. If you will step into the coffee-room
+for an hour, I&#8217;ll walk up to Farmer
+Hendry&#8217;s and see if they will take us in.
+I think we might be fairly comfortable.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Can Aunt Celia have Apollinaris and
+black coffee after her morning bath?&rsquo; I
+asked.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I hope, Katharine,&rsquo; said Aunt Celia
+majestically&mdash;&lsquo;I hope that I can accommodate
+myself to circumstances. If
+<a name="png.094" id="png.094"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">82</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Mr. Copley can secure apartments for us,
+I shall be more than grateful.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>So here we are, all lodging together in
+an ideal English farmhouse. There is a
+thatched roof on one of the old buildings,
+and the dairy-house is covered with ivy,
+and Farmer Hendry&#8217;s wife makes a real
+English curtsey, and there are herds of
+beautiful sleek Durham cattle, and the
+butter and cream and eggs and mutton are
+delicious, and I never, never want to go
+home any more. I want to live here for
+ever and wave the American flag on
+Washington&#8217;s birthday.</p>
+
+<p>I am so happy that I feel as if something
+were going to spoil it all. Twenty
+years old to-day! I wish mamma were
+alive to wish me many happy returns.</p>
+
+<p>The cathedral is very beautiful in itself,
+and its situation is beyond all words of
+mine to describe. I greatly admired the
+pulpit, which is supported by five pillars
+<a name="png.095" id="png.095"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">83</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>sunk into the backs of squashed lions; but
+Mr. Copley, when I asked him the period,
+said, &lsquo;Pure Brummagem!&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>There is a nice old cell for refractory
+monks, that we agreed will be a lovely
+place for Mrs. Benedict if we can lose her
+in it. She arrives as soon as they can
+find room for her at the Three Tuns.</p>
+
+<p>Memoranda:&mdash;Casual remark for breakfast-table
+or perhaps for luncheon&mdash;it is a
+trifle heavy for breakfast: <i>&lsquo;Since the sixteenth
+century, and despite the work of
+Inigo Jones and the great Wren</i> (not
+Jenny Wren: Christopher), <i>architecture
+has had, in England especially, no legitimate
+development.&rsquo; This is the only
+cathedral with a Bishop&#8217;s Throne or a
+Sanctuary Knocker.</i></p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p>
+
+<h3><a name="png.096" id="png.096"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">84</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Durham</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>July</i> 19.</span></small></p>
+
+<p>O child of fortune, thy name is J.&nbsp;Q.
+Copley! How did it happen to be election
+time? Why did the inns chance to
+be full? How did Aunt Celia relax sufficiently
+to allow me to find her a lodging?
+Why did she fall in love with the lodging
+when found? I do not know. I only
+know Fate smiles; that Kitty and I eat
+our morning bacon and eggs together;
+that I carve Kitty&#8217;s cold beef and pour
+Kitty&#8217;s sparkling ale at luncheon; that I
+go to matins with Kitty, and dine with
+Kitty, and walk in the gloaming with
+Kitty&mdash;and Aunt Celia. And after a day
+of heaven like this, like Lorna Doone&#8217;s
+lover&mdash;ay, and like every other lover, I
+suppose&mdash;I go to sleep, and the roof
+above me swarms with angels, having
+Kitty under it.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.097" id="png.097"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">85</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>She was so beautiful on Sunday. She
+has been wearing her favourite browns and
+primroses through the week, but on Sunday
+she blossomed into blue and white, topped
+by a wonderful hat, whose brim was laden
+with hyacinths. She sat on the end of a
+seat in the nave, and there was a capped
+and gowned crowd of university students
+in the transept. I watched them and they
+watched her. She has the fullest, whitest
+eyelids, and the loveliest lashes. When
+she looks down I wish she might never
+look up, and when she looks up I am
+never ready for her to look down. If it
+had been a secular occasion, and she had
+dropped her handkerchief, seven-eighths
+of the students would have started to pick
+it up&mdash;but I should have got there first!
+Well, all this is but a useless prelude,
+for there are facts to be considered&mdash;delightful,
+warm, breathing facts!</p>
+
+<p>We were coming home from evensong,
+<a name="png.098" id="png.098"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">86</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Kitty and I. (I am anticipating, for she
+was still &lsquo;Miss Schuyler&rsquo; then, but never
+mind.) We were walking through the
+fields, while Mrs. Benedict and Aunt
+Celia were driving. As we came across
+a corner of the bit of meadow land that
+joins the stable and the garden, we heard
+a muffled roar, and as we looked around
+we saw a creature with tossing horns and
+waving tail making for us, head down,
+eyes flashing. Kitty gave a shriek. We
+chanced to be near a pair of low bars. I
+hadn&#8217;t been a college athlete for nothing.
+I swung Kitty over the bars, and jumped
+after her. But she, not knowing in her
+fright where she was nor what she was
+doing, supposing also that the mad creature,
+like the villain in the play, would &lsquo;still
+pursue her,&rsquo; flung herself bodily into my
+arms, crying, &lsquo;Jack! Jack! save me!&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>It was the first time she had called me
+&lsquo;Jack,&rsquo; and I needed no second invitation.
+<a name="png.099" id="png.099"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">87</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>I proceeded to save her, in the usual way,
+by holding her to my heart and kissing
+her lovely hair reassuringly as I murmured:</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;You are safe, my darling; not a hair
+of your precious head shall be hurt. Don&#8217;t
+be frightened.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>She shivered like a leaf.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I am frightened,&rsquo; she said; &lsquo;I can&#8217;t
+help being frightened. He will chase us,
+I know. Where is he? What is he
+doing now?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Looking up to determine if I need abbreviate
+this blissful moment, I saw the
+enraged animal disappearing in the side-door
+of the barn; and it was a nice, comfortable
+Durham cow, that somewhat rare
+but possible thing&mdash;a sportive cow.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Is he gone?&rsquo; breathed Kitty from my
+waistcoat.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Yes, he is gone&mdash;she is gone, darling.
+But don&#8217;t move; it may come again.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.100" id="png.100"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">88</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>My first too hasty assurance had calmed
+Kitty&#8217;s fears, and she raised her charming
+flushed face from its retreat and prepared
+to withdraw. I did not facilitate the preparations,
+and a moment of awkward
+silence ensued.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Might I inquire,&rsquo; I asked, &lsquo;if the dear
+little person at present reposing in my
+arms will stay there (with intervals for
+rest and refreshment) for the rest of her
+natural life?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>She withdrew entirely now, all but
+her hand, and her eyes sought the
+ground.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I suppose I shall have to&mdash;that is,
+if you think&mdash;at least, I suppose you do
+think&mdash;at any rate, you look as if you
+were thinking&mdash;that this has been giving
+you encouragement.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I do indeed&mdash;decisive, undoubted, bare-faced
+encouragement.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I don&#8217;t think I ought to be judged as
+<a name="png.101" id="png.101"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">89</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>if I were in my sober senses,&rsquo; she replied.
+&lsquo;I was frightened within an inch of my
+life. I told you this morning that I was
+dreadfully afraid of bulls, especially mad
+ones, and I told you that my nurse frightened
+me, when I was a child, with awful
+stories about them, and that I never outgrew
+my childish terror. I looked everywhere
+about. The barn was too far, the
+fence too high; I saw him coming, and
+there was nothing but you and the open
+country. Of course, I took you. It was
+very natural, I&#8217;m sure; any girl would
+have done it.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;To be sure,&rsquo; I replied soothingly, &lsquo;any
+girl would have run after me, as you
+say.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I didn&#8217;t say any girl would have run
+after you&mdash;you needn&#8217;t flatter yourself;
+and besides, I think I was really trying to
+protect you as well as to gain protection,
+else why should I have cast myself on you
+<a name="png.102" id="png.102"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">90</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>like a catamount, or a catacomb, or whatever
+the thing is?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Yes, darling, I thank you for saving
+my life, and I am willing to devote the remainder
+of it to your service as a pledge
+of my gratitude; but if you should take
+up life-saving as a profession, dear, don&#8217;t
+throw yourself on a fellow with&mdash;&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Jack! Jack!&rsquo; she cried, putting her
+hand over my lips, and getting it well
+kissed in consequence. &lsquo;If you will only
+forget that, and never, never taunt me
+with it afterwards, I&#8217;ll&mdash;I&#8217;ll&mdash;well, I&#8217;ll do
+anything in reason&mdash;yes, even marry
+you!&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="fivestar">* * * * *</p><!-- in the original, this comes after the next section heading -->
+
+
+<h3><i>He</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Canterbury</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>July</i> 31,</span><br
+ />The Royal Fountain.</small></p>
+
+<p>I was never sure enough of Kitty, at
+first, to dare risk telling her about that
+<a name="png.103" id="png.103"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">91</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>little mistake of hers. She is such an
+elusive person that I spend all my time in
+wooing her, and can never lay the flattering
+unction to my soul that she is really
+won.</p>
+
+<p>But after Aunt Celia had looked up my
+family record and given a provisional consent,
+and Papa Schuyler had cabled a reluctant
+blessing, I did not feel capable of
+any further self-restraint.</p>
+
+<p>It was twilight here in Canterbury, and
+we were sitting on the vine-shaded veranda
+of Aunt Celia&#8217;s lodging. Kitty&#8217;s head was
+on my shoulder. There is something very
+queer about that; when Kitty&#8217;s head is on
+my shoulder, I am not capable of any consecutive
+train of thought. When she puts
+it there I see stars, then myriads of stars,
+then, oh! I can&#8217;t begin to enumerate the
+steps by which ecstasy mounts to delirium;
+but, at all events, any operation
+which demands exclusive use of the intellect
+<a name="png.104" id="png.104"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">92</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>is beyond me at these times. Still,
+I gathered my stray wits together, and
+said:</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Kitty!&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Yes, Jack?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Now that nothing but death or marriage
+can separate us, I have something to confess
+to you.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Yes,&rsquo; she said serenely, &lsquo;I know
+what you are going to say. He was a
+cow.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>I lifted her head from my shoulder
+sternly, and gazed into her childlike, candid
+eyes.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;You mountain of deceit! How long
+have you known about it?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="illus"><a name="png.105" id="png.105"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">93</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span><img src="images/illus-105.png" width="426" height="700"
+ alt="&ldquo;Lor&#8217;, miss!&rdquo; said Farmer Hendry, &ldquo;he haven&#8217;t
+been pastured there for three weeks&rdquo;"
+ title="&ldquo;Lor&#8217;, miss!&rdquo; said Farmer Hendry, &ldquo;he haven&#8217;t
+been pastured there for three weeks&rdquo;" /></p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Ever since the first. Oh, Jack, stop
+looking at me in that way! Not the very
+first, not when I&mdash;not when you&mdash;not
+when we&mdash;no, not then, but the next
+morning, I said to Farmer Hendry, &ldquo;I
+wish you would keep your savage bull
+<a name="png.106" id="png.106"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">94</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>chained up while we are here; Aunt Celia
+is awfully afraid of them, especially those
+that go mad, like yours!&rdquo; &ldquo;Lor&#8217;, miss!&rdquo;
+said Farmer Hendry, &ldquo;he haven&#8217;t been
+pastured here for three weeks. I keep him
+six mile away. There ben&#8217;t nothing but
+gentle cows in the home medder.&rdquo; But I
+didn&#8217;t think that you knew, you secretive
+person! I dare say you planned the whole
+thing in advance, in order to take advantage
+of my fright!&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Never! I am incapable of such an
+unnecessary subterfuge! Besides, Kitty,
+I could not have made an accomplice of
+a cow, you know.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Then,&rsquo; she said, with great dignity, &lsquo;if
+you had been a gentleman and a man of
+honour, you would have cried, &ldquo;Unhand
+me, girl! You are clinging to me under
+a misunderstanding!&rdquo;&rsquo;</p>
+
+<h3><a name="png.107" id="png.107"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">95</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>She</i></h3>
+
+<p class="dateline"><small><span class="smc">Chester</span>,
+ <span class="date"><i>August</i> 8,</span><br
+ />The Grosvenor.</small></p>
+
+<p>Jack and I are going over this same
+ground next summer on our wedding
+journey. We shall sail for home next
+week, and we haven&#8217;t half done justice to
+the cathedrals. After the first two, we
+saw nothing but each other on a general
+background of architecture. I hope my
+mind is improved, but oh, I am so hazy
+about all the facts I have read since I
+knew Jack! Winchester and Salisbury
+stand out superbly in my memory. They
+acquired their ground before it was occupied
+with other matters. I shall never
+forget, for instance, that Winchester has
+the longest spire and Salisbury the highest
+nave of all the English cathedrals. And
+I shall never forget so long as I live that
+Jane Austen and Isaac Newt&mdash; Oh
+<a name="png.108" id="png.108"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">96</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>dear! was it Isaac Newton or Izaak
+Walton that was buried in Winchester
+and Salisbury? To think that that interesting
+fact should have slipped from my
+mind, after all the trouble I took with it!
+But I know that it was Isaac somebody,
+and that he was buried in&mdash;well, he was
+buried in one of those two places. I am
+not certain which, but I can ask Jack; he
+is sure to know.</p>
+
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+
+
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+Atlantic.&rsquo;&mdash;<cite>Punch</cite>.</p>
+
+
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+ class="pgmark">ad3</span><span class="ns">]<br
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+There is a perception and a sense of humour about them which make
+them not only delightful to read, but worth thinking about afterwards. The
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+The volume is well and prettily bound, and its &ldquo;get-up&rdquo; is admirable. It is
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+
+
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+
+<p class="puff">By <span class="smc">S. T. Coleridge</span>. With six full-page illustrations reproduced in
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+
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+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Cathedral Courtship, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: A Cathedral Courtship
+
+Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
+
+Illustrator: Charles E. Brock
+
+Release Date: May 16, 2008 [EBook #25493]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP ***
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+Produced by David Wilson and the Online Distributed
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+
+A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP
+
+
+
+
+_By the same Author._
+
+  =Penelope's Irish Experiences.= 6s.
+
+  =Penelope's English Experiences.= Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. 6s.
+
+  =Penelope's Experiences in Scotland.= Illustrated by Charles E.
+    Brock. 6s.
+
+  =Timothy's Quest.= Illustrated by Oliver Herford. 2s. 6d.
+
+  =Marm Liza.= 6s.
+
+  =Village Watch-Tower.= 3s. 6d.
+
+  =Polly Oliver's Problem.= Illustrated. 3s. 6d.
+
+  =Summer in a Canyon.= Illustrated. 3s. 6d.
+
+  =Birds' Christmas Carol.= Illustrated. 1s. 6d.
+
+  =Story of Patsy.= Illustrated. 1s. 6d.
+
+
+_By Mrs. Wiggin & Miss Nora A. Smith._
+
+  =The Story Hour.= Illustrated. 2s. 6d.
+
+  =Children's Rights.= 5s.
+
+  =Republic of Childhood.= 3 vols. 5s. each.
+
+
+_LONDON: GAY AND BIRD._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: 'Jack! Jack! save me!']
+
+
+
+
+A Cathedral Courtship
+
+
+BY
+Kate Douglas Wiggin
+
+
+_ILLUSTRATED_
+
+BY
+CHARLES E. BROCK
+
+
+
+
+GAY AND BIRD
+22 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND
+LONDON
+
+1901
+
+_All rights reserved_
+
+
+
+
+_Originally published in 1893 with 'Penelope's English Experiences,' and
+reprinted 1893 (twice), 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897._
+
+
+
+
+_PREFACE_
+
+
+_'A Cathedral Courtship' was first published in 1893, appearing in a
+volume with 'Penelope's English Experiences.' In course of time, the
+latter story, finding unexpected favour in the public eyes, left its
+modest companion, and was promoted to a separate existence, with
+pictures and covers of its own. Then something rather curious occurred,
+one of those trifles which serve to make a publisher's life an exciting,
+if not a happy, one. When the 'gentle reader' (bless his or her warm and
+irrational heart!) could no longer buy 'A Cathedral Courtship,' a new
+desire for it sprang into being, and when the demands became
+sufficiently ardent and numerous, it was decided to republish the story,
+with illustrations by Mr. Charles E. Brock, an artist who can be relied
+upon to put new energy into a live tale or resuscitate a dead one.
+
+At this point the author, having presumably grown in knowledge of
+grammar, spelling, and punctuation, was asked to revise the text, and
+being confronted with the printed page, was overcome by the temptation
+to add now and then a sentence, line, or paragraph, while the charming
+shade of Miss Kitty Schuyler perched on every exclamation point, begging
+permission to say a trifle, just a trifle, more.
+
+'You might allow me to explain myself just there,' she coaxed; 'and if
+you have told them all I was supposed to be thinking in Winchester or
+Salisbury or Oxford, why not tell them what I thought in Bath or
+Peterborough or Ely? It was awfully interesting!'
+
+Jack Copley, too, clamoured to be heard still further on the subject of
+his true-love's charms, so the author yielded to this twofold pressure,
+and added a few corroborative details.
+
+The little courtship, running its placid course through sleepy cathedral
+towns, has not been altered in the least by these new pages. It is only
+as if the story-teller, meeting a new pair of interested eyes, had
+almost unconsciously drifted into fresh confidences._
+
+    _KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN._
+
+
+_This is all quite true, and anyway we have said nothing that we are a
+bit ashamed of._
+
+    _KITTY SCHUYLER._
+
+          X
+
+    _JACK COPLEY._
+
+        _Their mark._
+
+
+London, _July, 1901_.
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+                                                                    PAGE
+  'JACK! JACK! SAVE ME!'                                  _Frontispiece_
+
+  'IT WOULD 'ARDLY BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOOSEBERRY-TART, MISS'         11
+
+  I OFFERED IT TO HER WITH DISTINGUISHED GRACE                        27
+
+  I WAS DISCONCERTED AT BEING FOUND IN A DRAMSHOP ALONE               35
+
+  SHE IGNORES THE BABBLE OF CONTEMPORANEOUS LOVERS                    63
+
+  'LOR', MISS!' SAID FARMER HENDRY, 'HE HAVEN'T BEEN PASTURED THERE
+    FOR THREE WEEKS'                                                  93
+
+
+
+
+A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Winchester, _May 28, ----_,
+        The Royal Garden Inn.
+
+
+We are doing the English cathedral towns, Aunt Celia and I. Aunt Celia
+has an intense desire to improve my mind. Papa told her, when we were
+leaving Cedarhurst, that he wouldn't for the world have it too much
+improved, and Aunt Celia remarked that, so far as she could judge, there
+was no immediate danger; with which exchange of hostilities they parted.
+
+We are travelling under the yoke of an iron itinerary, warranted
+neither to bend nor break. It was made out by a young High Church curate
+in New York, and if it were a creed, or a document that had been blessed
+by all the bishops and popes, it could not be more sacred to Aunt Celia.
+She is awfully High Church, and I believe she thinks this tour of the
+cathedrals will give me a taste for ritual and bring me into the true
+fold. Mamma was a Unitarian, and so when she was alive I generally
+attended service at that church. Aunt Celia says it is not a Church;
+that the most you can say for it is that it is a 'belief' rather loosely
+and carelessly formulated. She also says that dear old Dr. Kyle is the
+most dangerous Unitarian she knows, because he has leanings towards
+Christianity.
+
+Long ago, in her youth, Aunt Celia was engaged to a young architect. He,
+with his triangles and T-squares and things, succeeded in making an
+imaginary scale-drawing of her heart (up to that time a virgin forest,
+an unmapped territory), which enabled him to enter in and set up a
+pedestal there, on which he has remained ever since. He has been only a
+memory for many years, to be sure, for he died at the age of twenty-six,
+before he had had time to build anything but a livery stable and a
+country hotel. This is fortunate, on the whole, because Aunt Celia
+thinks he was destined to establish American architecture on a higher
+plane, rid it of its base, time-serving, imitative instincts, and waft
+it to a height where, in the course of centuries, it would have been
+revered and followed by all the nations of the earth.
+
+I went to see the stable, after one of these Miriam-like flights of
+prophecy on the might-have-been. It isn't fair to judge a man's promise
+by one modest performance, and so I shall say nothing, save that I am
+sure it was the charm of the man that won my aunt's affection, not the
+genius of the builder.
+
+This sentiment about architecture and this fondness for the very
+toppingest High Church ritual cause Aunt Celia to look on the English
+cathedrals with solemnity and reverential awe. She has given me a fat
+note-book, with 'Katharine Schuyler' stamped in gold letters on the
+Russia-leather cover, and a lock and key to conceal its youthful
+inanities from the general public. I am not at all the sort of girl who
+makes notes, and I have told her so; but she says that I must at least
+record my passing impressions, if they are ever so trivial and
+commonplace. She also says that one's language gains unconsciously in
+dignity and sobriety by being set down in black and white, and that a
+liberal use of pen and ink will be sure to chasten my extravagances of
+style.
+
+I wanted to go directly from Southampton to London with the Abbotts, our
+ship friends, who left us yesterday. Roderick Abbott and I had had a
+charming time on board ship (more charming than Aunt Celia knows,
+because she was very ill, and her natural powers of chaperoning were
+severely impaired), and the prospect of seeing London sights together
+was not unpleasing; but Roderick Abbott is not in Aunt Celia's
+itinerary, which reads: 'Winchester, Salisbury, Bath, Wells, Gloucester,
+Oxford, London, Ely, Peterborough, Lincoln, York, Durham.' These are the
+cathedrals Aunt Celia's curate chose to visit, and this is the order in
+which he chose to visit them. Canterbury was too far east for him, and
+Exeter was too far west, but he suggests Ripon and Hereford if strength
+and time permit.
+
+Aunt Celia is one of those persons who are born to command, and when
+they are thrown in contact with those who are born to be commanded all
+goes as merry as a marriage bell; otherwise not.
+
+So here we are at Winchester; and I don't mind all the Roderick Abbotts
+in the universe, now that I have seen the Royal Garden Inn, its pretty
+coffee-room opening into the old-fashioned garden, with its borders of
+clove-pinks, its aviaries, and its blossoming horse-chestnuts, great
+towering masses of pink bloom.
+
+Aunt Celia has driven to St. Cross Hospital with Mrs. Benedict, an
+estimable lady tourist whom she 'picked up' _en route_ from Southampton.
+I am tired, and stayed at home. I cannot write letters, because Aunt
+Celia has the guide-books, so I sit by the window in indolent content,
+watching the dear little school laddies, with their short jackets and
+wide white collars; they all look so jolly, and rosy, and clean, and
+kissable. I should like to kiss the chambermaid, too. She has a pink
+print dress, no fringe, thank goodness (it's curious our servants can't
+leave that deformity to the upper classes), but shining brown hair,
+plump figure, soft voice, and a most engaging way of saying 'Yes, miss?
+Anythink more, miss?' I long to ask her to sit down comfortably and be
+English while I study her as a type, but of course I mustn't. Sometimes
+I wish I could retire from the world for a season and do what I like,
+'surrounded by the general comfort of being thought mad.'
+
+An elegant, irreproachable, high-minded model of dignity and reserve has
+just knocked and inquired what we will have for dinner. It is very
+embarrassing to give orders to a person who looks like a Justice of the
+Supreme Court, but I said languidly:
+
+'What would you suggest?'
+
+'How would you like a clear soup, a good spring soup, to begin with,
+miss?'
+
+'Very much.'
+
+'And a bit of turbot next, miss, with anchovy sauce?'
+
+'Yes, turbot, by all means,' I said, my mouth watering at the word.
+
+'And what else, miss? Would you enjoy a young duckling, miss, with new
+potatoes and green peas?'
+
+'Just the thing; and for dessert--' I couldn't think what I ought to
+order next in England, but the high-minded model coughed apologetically,
+and, correcting my language, said:
+
+'I was thinking you might like gooseberry-tart and cream for a sweet,
+miss.'
+
+Oh that I could have vented my New World enthusiasm in a sigh of delight
+as I heard those intoxicating words, heretofore met only in English
+novels!
+
+'Ye--es,' I said hesitatingly, though I was palpitating with joy, 'I
+fancy we should like gooseberry-tart' (here a bright idea entered my
+mind); 'and perhaps, in case my aunt doesn't care for the
+gooseberry-tart, you might bring a lemon-squash, please.'
+
+Now, I had never met a lemon-squash personally, but I had often heard of
+it, and wished to show my familiarity with British culinary art.
+
+'It would 'ardly be a substitute for gooseberry-tart, miss; but shall I
+bring _one_ lemon-squash, miss?'
+
+'Oh, as to that, it doesn't matter,' I said haughtily; 'bring a
+sufficient number for two persons.'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Aunt Celia came home in the highest feather. She had twice been mistaken
+for an Englishwoman. She said she thought that lemon-squash was a
+drink; I thought, of course, it was a pie; but we shall find out at
+dinner, for, as I said, I ordered a sufficient number for two persons,
+and the head-waiter is not a personage who will let Transatlantic
+ignorance remain uninstructed.
+
+At four o'clock we attended evensong at the cathedral. I shall not say
+what I felt when the white-surpliced boy choir entered, winding down
+those vaulted aisles, or when I heard for the first time that intoned
+service, with all its 'witchcraft of harmonic sound.' I sat quite by
+myself in a high carved oak seat, and the hour was passed in a trance of
+serene delight. I do not have many opinions, it is true, but papa says I
+am always strong on sentiments; nevertheless, I shall not attempt to
+tell even what I feel in these new and beautiful experiences, for it has
+been better told a thousand times.
+
+[Illustration: "It would 'ardly be a substitute for gooseberry-tart,
+miss."]
+
+There were a great many people at service, and a large number of
+Americans among them, I should think, though we saw no familiar faces.
+There was one particularly nice young man, who looked like a Bostonian.
+He sat opposite me. He didn't stare--he was too well bred, but when I
+looked the other way he looked at me. Of course, I could feel his eyes;
+anybody can--at least, any girl can; but I attended to every word of the
+service, and was as good as an angel. When the procession had filed out,
+and the last strain of the great organ had rumbled into silence, we went
+on a tour through the cathedral, a heterogeneous band, headed by a
+conscientious old verger, who did his best to enlighten us, and
+succeeded in virtually spoiling my pleasure.
+
+After we had finished (think of 'finishing' a cathedral in an hour or
+two!), Aunt Celia and I, with one or two others, wandered through the
+beautiful close, looking at the exterior from every possible point, and
+coming at last to a certain ruined arch which is very famous. It did not
+strike me as being remarkable. I could make any number of them with a
+pattern without the least effort. But, at any rate, when told by the
+verger to gaze upon the beauties of this wonderful relic and tremble, we
+were obliged to gaze also upon the beauties of the aforesaid nice young
+man, who was sketching it.
+
+As we turned to go away, Aunt Celia dropped her bag. It is one of those
+detestable, all-absorbing, all-devouring, thoroughly respectable, but
+never proud, Boston bags, made of black cloth with leather trimmings,
+'C. Van T.' embroidered on the side, and the top drawn up with stout
+cords which pass over the Boston wrist or arm. As for me, I loathe them,
+and would not for worlds be seen carrying one, though I do slip a great
+many necessaries into Aunt Celia's.
+
+I hastened to pick up the horrid thing, for fear the nice young man
+would feel obliged to do it for me; but, in my indecorous haste, I
+caught hold of the wrong end, and emptied the entire contents on the
+stone flagging. Aunt Celia didn't notice; she had turned with the
+verger, lest she should miss a single word of his inspired testimony. So
+we scrambled up the articles together, the nice young man and I; and oh,
+I hope I may never look upon his face again.
+
+There were prayer-books and guide-books, a Bath bun, a bottle of
+soda-mint tablets, a church calendar, a bit of gray frizz that Aunt
+Celia pins into her cap when she is travelling in damp weather, a
+spectacle-case, a brandy-flask, and a bon-bon-box, which broke and
+scattered cloves and peppermint lozenges. (I hope he guessed Aunt Celia
+is a dyspeptic, and not intemperate!) All this was hopelessly vulgar,
+but I wouldn't have minded anything if there had not been a Duchess
+novel. Of course he thought that it belonged to me. He couldn't have
+known Aunt Celia was carrying it for that accidental Mrs. Benedict, with
+whom she went to St. Cross Hospital.
+
+After scooping the cloves out of the cracks in the stone flagging--and,
+of course, he needn't have done this, unless he had an abnormal sense of
+humour--he handed me the tattered, disreputable-looking copy of 'A
+Modern Circe,' with a bow that wouldn't have disgraced a Chesterfield,
+and then went back to his easel, while I fled after Aunt Celia and her
+verger.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Memoranda: _The Winchester Cathedral has the longest nave. The inside is
+more superb than the outside. Izaak Walton and Jane Austen are buried
+here._
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Winchester, _May 28_,
+        The White Swan.
+
+
+As sure as my name is Jack Copley, I saw the prettiest girl in the world
+to-day--an American, too, or I am greatly mistaken. It was in the
+cathedral, where I have been sketching for several days. I was sitting
+at the end of a bench, at afternoon service, when two ladies entered by
+the side-door. The ancient maiden, evidently the head of the family,
+settled herself devoutly, and the young one stole off by herself to one
+of the old carved seats back of the choir. She was worse than pretty! I
+made a memorandum of her during service, as she sat under the dark
+carved-oak canopy, with this Latin inscription over her head:
+
+  Carlton cum
+  Dolby
+  Letania
+  IX Solidorum
+  Super Flumina
+  Confitebor tibi
+  Duc probati
+
+There ought to be a law against a woman's making a picture of herself,
+unless she is willing to allow an artist to 'fix her' properly in his
+gallery of types.
+
+A black-and-white sketch doesn't give any definite idea of this
+charmer's charms, but sometime I'll fill it in--hair, sweet little hat,
+gown, and eyes, all in golden brown, a cape of tawny sable slipping off
+her arm, a knot of yellow primroses in her girdle, carved-oak
+background, and the afternoon sun coming through a stained-glass window.
+Great Jove! She had a most curious effect on me, that girl! I can't
+explain it--very curious, altogether new, and rather pleasant. When one
+of the choir-boys sang 'Oh for the wings of a dove!' a tear rolled out
+of one of her lovely eyes and down her smooth brown cheek. I would have
+given a large portion of my modest monthly income for the felicity of
+wiping away that teardrop with one of my new handkerchiefs, marked with
+a tremendous 'C' by my pretty sister.
+
+An hour or two later they appeared again--the dragon, who answers to the
+name of 'Aunt Celia,' and the 'nut-brown mayde,' who comes when she is
+called 'Katharine.' I was sketching a ruined arch. The dragon dropped
+her unmistakably Boston bag. I expected to see encyclopaedias and Russian
+tracts fall from it, but was disappointed. The 'nut-brown mayde' (who
+has been trained in the way she should go) hastened to pick up the bag
+for fear that I, a stranger, should serve her by doing it. She was
+punished by turning it inside out, and I was rewarded by helping her
+gather together the articles, which were many and ill-assorted. My
+little romance received the first blow when I found that she reads the
+Duchess novels. I think, however, she has the grace to be ashamed of it,
+for she blushed scarlet when I handed her 'A Modern Circe.' I could have
+told her that such a blush on such a cheek would almost atone for not
+being able to read at all, but I refrained. It is vexatious all the
+same, for, though one doesn't expect to find perfection here below, the
+'nut-brown mayde,' externally considered, comes perilously near it.
+After she had gone I discovered a slip of paper which had blown under
+some stones. It proved to be an itinerary. I didn't return it. I thought
+they must know which way they were going; and as this was precisely what
+I wanted to know, I kept it for my own use. She is doing the cathedral
+towns. I am doing the cathedral towns. Happy thought! Why shouldn't we
+do them together--we and Aunt Celia? A fellow whose mother and sister
+are in America must have some feminine society!
+
+I had only ten minutes to catch my train for Salisbury, but I concluded
+to run in and glance at the registers of the principal hotels. Found my
+'nut-brown mayde' at once in the guest-book of the Royal Garden Inn:
+'Miss Celia Van Tyck, Beverly, Mass., U.S.A. Miss Katharine Schuyler,
+New York, U.S.A.' I concluded to stay over another train, ordered
+dinner, and took an altogether indefensible and inconsistent pleasure in
+writing 'John Quincy Copley, Cambridge, Mass.,' directly beneath the
+charmer's autograph.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Salisbury, _June 1_,
+        The White Hart Inn.
+
+
+We left Winchester on the 1.16 train yesterday, and here we are within
+sight of another superb and ancient pile of stone. I wanted so much to
+stop at the Highflyer Inn in Lark Lane, but Aunt Celia said that if we
+were destitute of personal dignity, we at least owed something to our
+ancestors. Aunt Celia has a temperamental distrust of joy as something
+dangerous and ensnaring. She doesn't realize what fun it would be to
+date one's letters from the Highflyer Inn, Lark Lane, even if one were
+obliged to consort with poachers and trippers in order to do it.
+
+Better times are coming, however, for she was in a melting mood last
+evening, and promised me that wherever I can find an inn with a
+picturesque and unusual name, she will stop there, provided it is clean
+and respectable, if I on my part will agree to make regular notes of
+travel in my Russia-leather book. She says that ever since she was my
+age she has asked herself nightly the questions Pythagoras was in the
+habit of using as a nightcap:
+
+  'What have I learned that's worth the knowing?
+  What have I done that's worth the doing?
+  What have I sought I should have shunned,
+  And into what new follies run?'
+
+I asked her why Pythagoras didn't say 'runned' and make a consistent
+rhyme, and she evaded the point by answering that Pythagoras didn't
+write it in English.
+
+We attended service at three. The music was lovely, and there were
+beautiful stained-glass windows by Burne-Jones and Morris. The verger
+(when wound up with a shilling) talked like an electric doll. If that
+nice young man is making a cathedral tour like ourselves, he isn't
+taking our route, for he isn't here. If he has come over for the purpose
+of sketching, he wouldn't stop with one cathedral, unless he is very
+indolent and unambitious, and he doesn't look either of these.
+
+Perhaps he began at the other end, and worked down to Winchester. Yes,
+that must be it, for the _Ems_ sailed yesterday from Southampton. Too
+bad, for he was a distinct addition to the landscape. Why didn't I say,
+when he was picking up the collection of curios in Aunt Celia's bag,
+'You needn't bother about the novel, thank you; it is not mine, and
+anyway it would be of no use to anybody.'
+
+
+        _June 2._
+
+
+We intended to go to Stonehenge this morning, but it rained, so we took
+a 'growler' and went to the Earl of Pembroke's country place to see the
+pictures. Had a delightful morning with the magnificent antiques,
+curios, and portraits. The Van Dyck room is a joy for ever; but one
+really needs a guide or a friend who knows something of art if one would
+understand these things. There were other visitors; nobody who looked
+especially interesting. Don't like Salisbury so well as Winchester.
+Don't know why. We shall drive this afternoon, if it is fair, and go to
+Bath and Wells to-morrow, I am glad to say. Must read Baedeker on the
+Bishop's palace. Oh, dear! if one could only have a good time and not
+try to know anything!
+
+Memoranda: _This cathedral has the highest spire. Remember: Winchester,
+longest nave; Salisbury, highest spire._
+
+_The Lancet style is those curved lines meeting in a rounding or a sharp
+point like this [inverted U shape] /\, and then joined together like
+this \/\/\/, the way they scallop babies' flannel petticoats. Gothic
+looks like triangles meeting together in various spots and joined with
+a beautiful sort of ornamented knobs. I think I recognise Gothic when I
+see it. Then there is Norman, Early English, fully developed Early
+English, Early and Late Perpendicular, Transition, and, for aught I
+know, a lot of others. Aunt Celia can tell them all apart._
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Salisbury, _June 3_,
+        The Red Lion.
+
+
+I went off on a long tramp this afternoon, and coming on a pretty river
+flowing through green meadows, with a fringe of trees on either side, I
+sat down to make a sketch. I heard feminine voices in the vicinity, but
+as these are generally a part of the landscape in the tourist season, I
+paid no special notice. Suddenly a dainty patent-leather shoe floated
+towards me on the surface of the stream. It evidently had just dropped
+in, for it was right side up with care, and was disporting itself most
+merrily. 'Did ever Jove's tree drop such fruit?' I quoted as I fished it
+out on my stick; and just then I heard a distressed voice saying, 'Oh,
+Aunt Celia, I've lost my smart little London shoe. I was sitting in a
+tree taking a pebble out of the heel, when I saw a caterpillar, and I
+dropped it into the river--the shoe, you know, not the caterpillar.'
+
+[Illustration: I offered it to her with distinguished grace]
+
+Hereupon she came in sight, and I witnessed the somewhat unusual
+spectacle of my 'nut-brown mayde' hopping, like a divine stork, on one
+foot, and ever and anon emitting a feminine shriek as the other, clad in
+a delicate silk stocking, came in contact with the ground. I rose
+quickly, and, polishing the patent leather ostentatiously inside and out
+with my handkerchief, I offered it to her with distinguished grace. She
+sat hurriedly down on the ground with as much dignity as possible, and
+then, recognising me as the person who picked up the contents of Aunt
+Celia's bag, she said, dimpling in the most distracting manner (that's
+another thing there ought to be a law against): 'Thank you again; you
+seem to be a sort of knight-errant.'
+
+'Shall I--assist you?' I asked. I might have known that this was going
+too far. Of course I didn't suppose she would let me help her put the
+shoe on, but I thought--upon my soul, I don't know what I thought, for
+she was about a million times prettier to-day than yesterday.
+
+'No, thank you,' she said, with polar frigidity. 'Good-afternoon.' And
+she hopped back to her Aunt Celia without another word.
+
+I don't know how to approach Aunt Celia. She is formidable. By a curious
+accident of feature, for which she is not in the least responsible, she
+always wears an unfortunate expression as of one perceiving some
+offensive odour in the immediate vicinity. This may be a mere accident
+of high birth. It is the kind of nose often seen in the 'first
+families,' and her name betrays the fact that she is of good old
+Knickerbocker origin. We go to Wells to-morrow--at least, I think we do.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Salisbury, _June 3_.
+
+
+I didn't like Salisbury at first, but I find it is the sort of place
+that grows on one the longer one stays in it. I am quite sorry we must
+leave so soon, but Aunt Celia is always in haste to be gone. Bath may be
+interesting, but it is entirely out of the beaten path from here.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Bath, _June 7_,
+        The Best Hotel.
+
+
+I met him at Wells and again this afternoon here. We are always being
+ridiculous, and he is always rescuing us. Aunt Celia never really sees
+him, and thus never recognises him when he appears again, always as the
+flower of chivalry and guardian of ladies in distress. I will never
+again travel abroad without a man, even if I have to hire one from a
+feeble-minded asylum. We work like galley-slaves, Aunt Celia and I,
+finding out about trains and things. Neither of us can understand
+Bradshaw, and I can't even grapple with the lesser intricacies of the
+A B C Railway Guide. The trains, so far as I can see, always arrive
+before they go out, and I can never tell whether to read up the page or
+down. It is certainly very queer that the stupidest man that breathes,
+one that barely escapes idiocy, can disentangle a railway guide when the
+brightest woman fails. Even the boots at the inn in Wells took my book,
+and, rubbing his frightfully dirty finger down the row of puzzling
+figures, found the place in a minute, and said, 'There ye are, miss.' It
+is very humiliating. I suppose there are Bradshaw professorships in the
+English universities, but the boots cannot have imbibed his knowledge
+there. A traveller at _table d'hote_ dinner yesterday said there are
+three classes of Bradshaw trains in Great Britain: those that depart and
+never arrive, those that arrive but never depart, and those that can be
+caught in transit, going on, like the wheel of eternity, with neither
+beginning nor end. All the time I have left from the study of routes and
+hotels I spend on guide-books. Now, I'm sure that if any one of the men
+I know were here, he could tell me all that is necessary as we walk
+along the streets. I don't say it in a frivolous or sentimental spirit
+in the least, but I do affirm that there is hardly any juncture in life
+where one isn't better off for having a man about. I should never dare
+divulge this to Aunt Celia, for she doesn't think men very nice. She
+excludes them from conversation as if they were indelicate subjects.
+
+But to go on, we were standing at the door of Ye Crowne and Keys at
+Wells, waiting for the fly which we had ordered to take us to the
+station, when who should drive up in a four-wheeler but the flower of
+chivalry. Aunt Celia was saying very audibly, 'We shall certainly miss
+the train, if the man doesn't come at once.'
+
+'Pray take this cab,' said the flower of chivalry. 'I am not leaving for
+an hour or more.'
+
+Aunt Celia got in without a murmur; I sneaked in after her, not daring
+to lift my eyes. I don't think she looked at him, though she did
+vouchsafe the remark that he seemed to be a civil sort of person.
+
+I was walking about by myself this afternoon. Aunt Celia and I had
+taken a long drive, and she had dropped me in a quaint old part of the
+town that I might have a brisk walk home for exercise. Suddenly it began
+to rain, which it is apt to do in England, between the showers, and at
+the same moment I espied a sign, 'Martha Huggins, Licensed Victualler.'
+It was a nice, tidy little shop, with a fire on the hearth and flowers
+in the window, and I thought no one would catch me if I stepped inside
+to chat with Martha until the sun shone again. I fancied it would be
+delightful and Dickensy to talk quietly with a licensed victualler by
+the name of Martha Huggins.
+
+Just after I had settled myself, the flower of chivalry came in and
+ordered ale. I was disconcerted at being found in a dramshop alone, for
+I thought, after the bag episode, he might fancy us a family of
+inebriates. But he didn't evince the slightest astonishment; he merely
+lifted his hat, and walked out after he had finished his ale. He
+certainly has the loveliest manners, and his hair is a more beautiful
+colour every time I see him.
+
+And so it goes on, and we never get any further. I like his politeness
+and his evident feeling that I can't be flirted and talked with like a
+forward boarding-school miss; but I must say I don't think much of his
+ingenuity. Of course one can't have all the virtues, but if I were he, I
+would part with my distinguished air, my charming ease--in fact, almost
+anything, if I could have in exchange a few grains of common-sense, just
+enough to guide me in the practical affairs of life.
+
+[Illustration: "I was disconcerted at being found in a dramshop alone."]
+
+I wonder what he is? He might be an artist, but he doesn't seem quite
+like an artist; or just a dilettante, but he doesn't look in the least
+like a dilettante. Or he might be an architect; I think that is the
+most probable guess of all. Perhaps he is only 'going to be' one of
+these things, for he can't be more than twenty-five or twenty-six.
+Still, he looks as if he were something already; that is, he has a kind
+of self-reliance in his mien--not self-assertion, nor self-esteem, but
+belief in self, as if he were able, and knew that he was able, to
+conquer circumstances.
+
+Aunt Celia wouldn't stay at Ye Olde Bell and Horns here. She looked
+under the bed (which, I insist, was an unfair test), and ordered her
+luggage to be taken instantly to the Grand Pump Room Hotel.
+
+Memoranda: _Bath became distinguished for its architecture and popular
+as a fashionable resort in the 17th century from the deserved repute of
+its waters and through the genius of two men, Wood the architect and
+Beau Nash, Master of Ceremonies. A true picture of the society of the
+period is found in Smollett's 'Humphry Clinker', which Aunt Celia says
+she will read and tell me what is necessary. Remember the window of the
+seven lights in the Abbey Church, the one with the angels ascending and
+descending; also the rich Perp. chantry of Prior Bird, S. of chancel. It
+is Murray who calls it a Perp. chantry, not I._
+
+
+_She_
+
+    _June 8._
+
+
+It was very wet this morning, and I had breakfast in my room. The maid's
+name is Hetty Precious, and I could eat almost anything brought me by
+such a beautifully named person. A little parcel postmarked Bath was on
+my tray, but as the address was printed, I have no clue to the sender.
+It was a wee copy of Jane Austen's 'Persuasion,' which I have read
+before, but was glad to see again, because I had forgotten that the
+scene is partly laid in Bath, and now I can follow dear Anne and vain
+Sir Walter, hateful Elizabeth and scheming Mrs. Clay through Camden
+Place and Bath Street, Union Street, Milsom Street, and the Pump Yard. I
+can even follow them to the site of the White Hart Hotel, where the
+adorable Captain Wentworth wrote the letter to Anne. After more than two
+hundred pages of suspense, with what joy and relief did I read that
+letter! I wonder if Anne herself was any more excited than I?
+
+At first I thought Roderick Abbott sent the book, until I remembered
+that his literary taste is _Puck_ in America and _Pick-me-up_ and
+_Tit-Bits_ in England; and now I don't know what to think. I turned to
+Captain Wentworth's letter in the last chapter but one--oh, it _is_ a
+beautiful letter! I _wish_ somebody would ever write me that he is 'half
+agony, half hope,' and that I 'pierce his soul.' Of course, it would be
+wicked to pierce a soul, and of course they wouldn't write that way
+nowadays; but there is something perfectly delightful about the
+expression.
+
+Well, when I found the place, what do you suppose? Some of the sentences
+in the letter seem to be underlined ever so faintly; so faintly, indeed,
+that I cannot quite decide whether it's my imagination or a lead-pencil,
+but this is the way it seems to look:
+
+'I can listen no longer in silence. [underlined: I must speak to you by
+such means as are within my reach.] You pierce my soul. I am half agony,
+half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings
+are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more
+your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare
+not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier
+death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and
+resentful I have been, but never inconstant. [underlined: You alone have
+brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen
+this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even
+these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must
+have penetrated mine.] I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing
+something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can
+distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others.
+Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice indeed. You do
+believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe
+it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in
+
+    'F. W.'
+
+Of course, this means nothing. Somebody has been reading the book, and
+marked it idly as he (or she) read. I can imagine someone's underlining
+a splendid sentiment like 'Dare not say that man forgets sooner than
+woman!' but why should a reader lay stress on such a simple sentence as
+'You alone brought me to Bath'?
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Gloucester, _June 10,_
+        The Golden Slipper.
+
+
+Nothing accomplished yet. Her aunt is a Van Tyck, and a stiff one, too.
+I am a Copley, and that delays matters. Much depends upon the manner of
+approach. A false move would be fatal. We have seven more towns (as per
+itinerary), and if their thirst for cathedrals isn't slaked when these
+are finished, we have the entire Continent to do. If I could only
+succeed in making an impression on the retina of Aunt Celia's eye!
+Though I have been under her feet for ten days, she never yet has
+observed me. This absent-mindedness of hers serves me ill now, but it
+may prove a blessing later on.
+
+I made two modest moves on the chessboard of Fate yesterday, but they
+were so very modest and mysterious that I almost fear they were never
+noticed.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Gloucester, _June 10_,
+        In Impossible Lodgings chosen by Me.
+
+
+Something else awfully exciting has happened.
+
+When we walked down the railway platform at Bath, I saw a pink placard
+pasted on the window of a first-class carriage. It had 'VAN TYCK:
+RESERVED,' written on it, after the English fashion, and we took our
+places without question. Presently Aunt Celia's eyes and mine alighted
+at the same moment on a bunch of yellow primroses pinned on the stuffed
+back of the most comfortable seat next the window.
+
+'They do things so well in England,' said Aunt Celia admiringly. 'The
+landlord must have sent my name to the guard--you see the advantage of
+stopping at the best hotels, Katharine--but one would not have suspected
+him capable of such a refined attention as the bunch of flowers. You
+must take a few of them, dear; you are so fond of primroses.'
+
+Oh! I am having a delicious time abroad! I do think England is the most
+interesting country in the world; and as for the cathedral towns, how
+can anyone bear to live anywhere else?
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Oxford, _June 12_,
+        The Mitre.
+
+
+It was here in Oxford that a grain of common-sense entered the brain of
+the flower of chivalry; you might call it the dawn of reason. We had
+spent part of the morning in High Street, 'the noblest old street in
+England,' as our dear Hawthorne calls it. As Wordsworth had written a
+sonnet about it, Aunt Celia was armed for the fray--a volume of
+Wordsworth in one hand, and one of Hawthorne in the other. (I wish
+Baedeker and Murray didn't give such full information about what one
+ought to read before one can approach these places in a proper spirit.)
+When we had done High Street, we went to Magdalen College, and sat down
+on a bench in Addison's Walk, where Aunt Celia proceeded to store my
+mind with the principal facts of Addison's career, and his influence on
+the literature of the something or other century. The cramming process
+over, we wandered along, and came upon 'him' sketching a shady corner of
+the walk.
+
+Aunt Celia went up behind him, and, Van Tyck though she is, she could
+not restrain her admiration of his work. I was surprised myself; I
+didn't suppose so good-looking a youth could do such good work. I
+retired to a safe distance, and they chatted together. He offered her
+the sketch; she refused to take advantage of his kindness. He said he
+would 'dash off' another that evening and bring it to our hotel--'so
+glad to do anything for a fellow-countryman,' etc. I peeped from behind
+a tree and saw him give her his card. It was an awful moment; I
+trembled, but she read it with unmistakable approval, and gave him her
+own with an expression that meant, 'Yours is good, but beat that if you
+can!'
+
+She called to me, and I appeared. Mr. John Quincy Copley, Cambridge, was
+presented to her niece, Miss Katharine Schuyler, New York. It was over,
+and a very small thing to take so long about, too.
+
+He is an architect, and, of course, has a smooth path into Aunt Celia's
+affections. Theological students, ministers, missionaries, heroes, and
+martyrs she may distrust, but architects never!
+
+'He is an architect, my dear Katharine, and he is a Copley,' she told me
+afterwards. 'I never knew a Copley who was not respectable, and many of
+them have been more.'
+
+After the introduction was over, Aunt Celia asked him guilelessly if he
+had visited any other of the English cathedrals. Any others,
+indeed!--this to a youth who had been all but in her lap for a
+fortnight. It was a blow, but he rallied bravely, and, with an amused
+look in my direction, replied discreetly that he had visited most of
+them at one time or another. I refused to let him see that I had ever
+noticed him before--that is, particularly.
+
+I wish I had had an opportunity of talking to him of our plans, but just
+as I was leading the conversation into the proper channels, the waiter
+came in for breakfast orders--as if it mattered what one had for
+breakfast, or whether one had any at all. I can understand an interest
+in dinner or even in luncheon, but not in breakfast; at least not when
+more important things are under consideration.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Memoranda: _'The very stones and mortar of this historic town seem
+impregnated with the spirit of restful antiquity.'_ (Extract from one of
+Aunt Celia's letters.) _Among the great men who have studied here are
+the Prince of Wales, Duke of Wellington, Gladstone, Sir Robert Peel, Sir
+Philip Sidney, William Penn, John Locke, the two Wesleys, Ruskin, Ben
+Jonson, and Thomas Otway._ (Look Otway up.)
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Oxford, _June 13_,
+        The Angel.
+
+
+I have done it, and if I hadn't been a fool and a coward I might have
+done it a week ago, and spared myself a good deal of delicious torment.
+'How sweet must be Love's self possessed, when but Love's shadows are so
+rich in joy!' or something of that sort.
+
+I have just given two hours to a sketch of Addison's Walk, and carried
+it to Aunt Celia at the Mitre. Object, to find out whether they make a
+long stay in London (our next point), and, if so, where. It seems they
+stop only a night. I said in the course of conversation:
+
+'So Miss Schuyler is willing to forego a London season? Marvellous
+self-denial!'
+
+'My niece did not come to Europe for a London season,' replied Miss Van
+Tyck. 'We go through London this time merely as a cathedral town,
+simply because it chances to be where it is geographically. We shall
+visit St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, and then go directly on, that
+our chain of impressions may have absolute continuity and be free from
+any disturbing elements.'
+
+Oh, but she is lovely, is Aunt Celia! London a cathedral town!
+
+Now, for my part, I should like to drop St. Paul's for once, and omit
+Westminster Abbey for the moment, and sit on the top of a bus with Miss
+Schuyler or in a hansom jogging up and down Piccadilly. The hansom
+should have bouquets of paper-flowers in the windows, and the horse
+should wear carnations in his headstall, and Miss Schuyler should ask me
+questions, to which I should always know the right answers. This would
+be but a prelude, for I should wish later to ask her questions to which
+I should hope she would also know the right answers.
+
+Heigho! I didn't suppose that anything could be lovelier than that
+girl's smile, but there is, and it is her voice.
+
+I shall call there again to-morrow morning. I don't know on what
+pretext, but I shall call, for my visit was curtailed this evening by
+the entrance of the waiter, who asked what they would have for
+breakfast. Miss Van Tyck said she would be disengaged in a moment, so
+naturally I departed, with a longing to knock the impudent waiter's head
+against the uncomprehending wall. Breakfast indeed! A fellow can
+breakfast regularly, and yet be in a starving condition.
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Oxford, _June 14_,
+        The Angel.
+
+
+I have just called. They have gone! Gone hours before they intended! How
+shall I find her in London?
+
+
+_He_
+
+    London, _June 15_,
+        Walsingham House Hotel.
+
+
+As a cathedral town London leaves much to be desired. There are too many
+hotels, too many people, and the distances are too great. For ten hours
+I kept a hansom galloping between St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, with
+no result. I am now going to Ely, where I shall stay in the cathedral
+from morning till night, and have my meals brought to me on a tray by
+the verger.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Ely, _June 15_,
+        At Miss Kettlestring's lodgings.
+
+
+I have lost him! He was not at St. Paul's or Westminster in
+London--great, cruel, busy, brutal London, that could swallow up any
+precious thing and make no sign. And he is not here! They say it is a
+very fine cathedral.
+
+Memoranda: _The Octagon is perhaps the most beautiful and original
+design to be found in the whole range of Gothic architecture. Remember
+also the retrochoir. The lower tier of windows consists of three long
+lancets, with groups of Purbeck shafts at the angles; the upper, of five
+lancets, diminishing from the centre, and set back, as in the
+clerestory, within an arcade supported by shafts._ (I don't believe even
+he could make head or tail of this.) _Remember the curious bosses under
+the brackets of the stone altar in the Alcock Chapel. They represent
+ammonites projecting from their shells and biting each other._ (If I
+were an ammonite I know I should bite Aunt Celia. Look up ammonite.)
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Ely, _June 18_,
+        The Lamb Hotel.
+
+
+I cannot find her! Am racked with rheumatic pains sitting in this big,
+empty, solitary, hollow, reverberating, damp, desolate, deserted
+cathedral hour after hour. On to Peterborough this evening.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Peterborough, _June 18_.
+
+
+He is not here. The cathedral, even the celebrated west front, seems to
+me somewhat overrated. Catherine of Aragon (or one of those Henry the
+Eighth wives) is buried here, also Mary Queen of Scots; but I am tired
+of looking at graves, viciously tired, too, of writing in this trumpery
+note-book. We move on this afternoon.
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Peterborough, _June 19_.
+
+
+A few more days of this modern Love Chase will unfit me for professional
+work. Tried to draw the roof of the choir, a good specimen of early
+Perp., and failed. Studied the itinerary again to see if it had any
+unsuspected suggestions in cipher. No go! York and Durham were
+double-starred by the Aunt Celia's curate as places for long stops.
+Perhaps we shall meet again there.
+
+
+    Lincoln, _June 22_,
+        The Black Boy Inn.
+
+
+I am stopping at a beastly little hole, which has the one merit of being
+opposite Miss Schuyler's lodgings, for I have found her at last. My
+sketch-book has deteriorated in artistic value during the last two
+weeks. Many of its pages, while interesting to me as reminiscences,
+will hardly do for family or studio exhibition. If I should label them,
+the result would be something like this:
+
+1. Sketch of a footstool and desk where I first saw Miss Schuyler
+kneeling.
+
+2. Sketch of a carved oak chair, Miss Schuyler sitting in it.
+
+3. 'Angel choir.' Heads of Miss Schuyler introduced into the carving.
+
+4. Altar screen. A row of full-length Miss Schuylers holding lilies.
+
+5. Tomb of a bishop, where I tied Miss Schuyler's shoe.
+
+6. Tomb of another bishop, where I had to tie it again because I did it
+so badly the first time.
+
+7. Sketch of the shoe, the shoe-lace worn out with much tying.
+
+8. Sketch of the blessed verger who called her 'Madam' when we were
+walking together.
+
+9. Sketch of her blush when he did it; the prettiest thing in the world.
+
+10. Sketch of J. Q. Copley contemplating the ruins of his heart.
+
+'How are the mighty fallen!'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Lincoln, _June 23_,
+        At Miss Smallpage's, Castle Garden.
+
+
+This is one of the charmingest towns we have visited, and I am so glad
+Aunt Celia has a letter to the Canon in residence, because it may keep
+her contented.
+
+We walked up Steep Hill this morning to see the Jews' house, but long
+before we reached it I had seen Mr. Copley sitting on a camp-stool, with
+his easel in front of him. Wonderful to relate, Aunt Celia recognised
+him, and was most cordial in her greeting. As for me, I was never so
+embarrassed in my life. I felt as if he knew that I had expected to see
+him in London and Ely and Peterborough, though, of course, he _couldn't_
+know it, even if he looked for, and missed, me in those three dreary and
+over-estimated places. He had made a most beautiful drawing of the Jews'
+House, and completed his conquest of Aunt Celia by presenting it to her.
+I should like to know when my turn is coming; but, anyway, she asked him
+to luncheon, and he came, and we had such a cosy, homelike meal
+together. He is even nicer than he looks, which is saying a good deal
+more than I should, even to a locked book. Aunt Celia dozed a little
+after luncheon, and Mr. Copley almost talked in whispers, he was so
+afraid of disturbing her nap. It is just in these trifling things that
+one can tell a true man--courtesy to elderly people and consideration
+for their weaknesses. He has done something in the world; I was sure
+that he had. He has a little income of his own, but he is too proud and
+ambitious to be an idler. He looked so manly when he talked about it,
+standing up straight and strong in his knickerbockers. I like men in
+knickerbockers. Aunt Celia doesn't. She says she doesn't see how a
+well-brought-up Copley can go about with his legs in that condition. I
+would give worlds to know how Aunt Celia ever unbent sufficiently to get
+engaged. But, as I was saying, Mr. Copley has accomplished something,
+young as he is. He has built three picturesque suburban churches
+suitable for weddings, and a State lunatic asylum.
+
+Aunt Celia says we shall have no worthy architecture until every
+building is made an exquisitely sincere representation of its deepest
+purpose--a symbol, as it were, of its indwelling meaning. I should think
+it would be very difficult to design a lunatic asylum on that basis, but
+I didn't dare say so, as the idea seemed to present no incongruities to
+Mr. Copley. Their conversation is absolutely sublimated when they get to
+talking of architecture. I have just copied two quotations from Emerson,
+and am studying them every night for fifteen minutes before I go to
+sleep. I'm going to quote them some time offhand, just after matins,
+when we are wandering about the cathedral grounds. The first is this:
+'The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone, subdued by the
+insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into
+an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the
+aerial proportion and perspective of vegetable beauty.' Then when he has
+recovered from the shock of this, here is my second: 'Nor can any lover
+of nature enter the old piles of English cathedrals without feeling that
+the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel,
+his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns, its spikes of flowers, its
+locust, elm, pine, and spruce.'
+
+Memoranda: _Lincoln choir is an example of Early English or First
+Pointed, which can generally be told from something else by bold
+projecting buttresses and dog-tooth moulding round the abacusses._ (The
+plural is my own, and it does not look right.) _Lincoln Castle was the
+scene of many prolonged sieges, and was once taken by Oliver Cromwell._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_He_
+
+    York, _June 26_,
+        The Black Swan.
+
+
+Kitty Schuyler is the concentrated essence of feminine witchery.
+Intuition strong, logic weak, and the two qualities so balanced as to
+produce an indefinable charm; will-power large, but docility equal, if
+a man is clever enough to know how to manage her; knowledge of facts
+absolutely _nil_, but she is exquisitely intelligent in spite of it. She
+has a way of evading, escaping, eluding, and then gives you an
+intoxicating hint of sudden and complete surrender. She is divinely
+innocent, but roguishness saves her from insipidity. Her looks? She
+looks as you would imagine a person might look who possessed these
+graces; and she is worth looking at, though every time I do it I have a
+rush of love to the head. When you find a girl who combines all the
+qualities you have imagined in the ideal, and who has added a dozen or
+two on her own account, merely to distract you past all hope, why stand
+up and try to resist her charm? Down on your knees like a man, say I!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I'm getting to adore Aunt Celia. I didn't care for her at first, but she
+is so deliciously blind. Anything more exquisitely unserviceable as a
+chaperon I can't imagine. Absorbed in antiquity, she ignores the babble
+of contemporaneous lovers. That any man could look at Kitty when he
+could look at a cathedral passes her comprehension. I do not presume too
+greatly on her absent-mindedness, however, lest she should turn
+unexpectedly and rend me. I always remember that inscription on the
+backs of the little mechanical French toys: 'Quoiqu'elle soit tres
+solidement montee, il faut ne pas brutaliser la machine.'
+
+And so my courtship progresses under Aunt Celia's very nose. I say
+'progresses'; but it is impossible to speak with any certainty of
+courting, for the essence of that gentle craft is hope, rooted in labour
+and trained by love.
+
+[Illustration: She ignores the babble of contemporaneous lovers]
+
+I set out to propose to her during service this afternoon by writing my
+feelings on the flyleaf of the hymn-book, or something like that; but I
+knew that Aunt Celia would never forgive such blasphemy, and I thought
+that Kitty herself might consider it wicked. Besides, if she should
+chance to accept me, there was nothing I could do in a cathedral to
+relieve my feelings. No; if she ever accepts me, I wish it to be in a
+large, vacant spot of the universe, peopled by two only, and those two
+so indistinguishably blended, as it were, that they would appear as one
+to the casual observer. So I practised repression, though the wall of my
+reserve is worn to the thinness of thread-paper, and I tried to keep my
+mind on the droning minor canon, and not to look at her, 'for that way
+madness lies.'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_She_
+
+    York, _June 28_,
+        High Petergate Street.
+
+
+My taste is so bad! I just begin to realize it, and I am feeling my
+'growing pains,' like Gwendolen in 'Daniel Deronda.' I admired the
+stained glass in the Lincoln Cathedral the other day, especially the
+Nuremberg window. I thought Mr. Copley looked pained, but he said
+nothing. When I went to my room, I consulted a book and found that all
+the glass in that cathedral is very modern and very bad, and the
+Nuremberg window is the worst of all. Aunt Celia says she hopes that it
+will be a warning to me to read before I speak; but Mr. Copley says no,
+that the world would lose more in one way than it would gain in the
+other. I tried my quotations this morning, and stuck fast in the middle
+of the first.
+
+Mr. Copley thinks I have been feeing the vergers too liberally, so I
+wrote a song about it called 'The Ballad of the Vergers and the Foolish
+Virgin,' which I sang to my guitar. Mr. Copley thinks it is cleverer
+than anything he ever did with his pencil. Of course, he says that only
+to be agreeable; but really, whenever he talks to me in that way, I can
+almost hear myself purring with pleasure.
+
+We go to two services a day in the minster, and sometimes I sit quite
+alone in the nave drinking in the music as it floats out from behind the
+choir-screen. The Litany and the Commandments are so beautiful heard in
+this way, and I never listen to the fresh, young voices chanting 'Write
+all these Thy laws in our hearts, we beseech Thee,' without wanting
+passionately to be good. I love, too, the joyful burst of music in the
+_Te Deum_: 'Thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.' I
+like that word 'all'; it takes in foolish me, as well as wise Aunt
+Celia.
+
+And yet, with all its pomp and magnificence, the service does not help
+me quite so much nor stir up the deep places, in me so quickly as dear
+old Dr. Kyle's simpler prayers and talks in the village meeting-house
+where I went as a child. Mr. Copley has seen it often, and made a little
+picture of it for me, with its white steeple and the elm-tree branches
+hanging over it. If I ever have a husband I should wish him to have
+memories like my own. It would be very romantic to marry an Italian
+marquis or a Hungarian count, but must it not be a comfort to two people
+to look back on the same past?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We all went to an evening service last night. It was an 'occasion,' and
+a famous organist played the Minster organ.
+
+I wonder why choir-boys are so often playful and fidgety and
+uncanonical in behaviour? Does the choirmaster advertise 'Naughty boys
+preferred,' or do musical voices commonly exist in unregenerate bodies?
+With all the opportunities they must have outside of the cathedral to
+exchange those objects of beauty and utility usually found in boys'
+pockets, there is seldom a service where they do not barter penknives,
+old coins, or tops, generally during the Old Testament reading. A dozen
+little black-surpliced 'probationers' sit together in a seat just
+beneath the choir-boys, and one of them spent his time this evening in
+trying to pull a loose tooth from its socket. The task not only engaged
+all his own powers, but made him the centre of attraction for the whole
+probationary row.
+
+Coming home, Aunt Celia walked ahead with Mrs. Benedict, who keeps
+turning up at the most unexpected moments. She's going to build a
+Gothicky memorial chapel somewhere, and is making studies for it. I
+don't like her in the least, but four is certainly a more comfortable
+number than three. I scarcely ever have a moment alone with Mr. Copley,
+for, go where I will and do what I please, as Aunt Celia has the most
+perfect confidence in my indiscretion, she is always _en evidence_.
+
+Just as we were turning into the quiet little street where we are
+lodging, I said:
+
+'Oh dear, I wish that I really knew something about architecture!'
+
+'If you don't know anything about it, you are certainly responsible for
+a good deal of it,' said Mr. Copley.
+
+'I? How do you mean?' I asked quite innocently, because I couldn't see
+how he could twist such a remark as that into anything like sentiment.
+
+'I have never built so many castles in my life as since I've known you,
+Miss Schuyler,' he said.
+
+'Oh,' I answered as lightly as I could, 'air-castles don't count.'
+
+'The building of air-castles is an innocent amusement enough, I
+suppose,' he said; 'but I'm committing the folly of living in mine. I--'
+
+Then I was frightened. When, all at once, you find you have something
+precious that you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish
+it hadn't come so soon. But just at that moment Mrs. Benedict called to
+us, and came tramping back from the gate, and hooked her supercilious,
+patronizing arm in Mr. Copley's, and asked him into the sitting-room to
+talk over the 'lady-chapel' in her new memorial church. Then Aunt Celia
+told me they would excuse me, as I had had a wearisome day; and there
+was nothing for me to do but to go to bed, like a snubbed child, and
+wonder if I should ever know the end of that sentence. And I listened
+at the head of the stairs, shivering, but all that I could hear was that
+Mrs. Benedict asked Mr. Copley to be her own architect. Her architect,
+indeed! That woman ought not to be at large--so rich and good-looking
+and unconscientious!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_He_
+
+    York, _July 5_.
+
+
+I had just established myself comfortably near to Miss Van Tyck's hotel,
+and found a landlady after my own heart in Mrs. Pickles, No. 6,
+Micklegate, when Miss Van Tyck, aided and abetted, I fear, by the
+romantic Miss Schuyler, elected to change her quarters, and I, of
+course, had to change too. Mine is at present a laborious (but not
+unpleasant) life. The causes of Miss Schuyler's removal, as I have been
+given to understand by the lady herself, were some particularly pleasing
+window-boxes in a lodging in High Petergate Street; boxes overflowing
+with pink geraniums and white field-daisies. No one (she explains) could
+have looked at this house without desiring to live in it; and when she
+discovered, during a somewhat exhaustive study of the premises, that the
+maid's name was Susan Strangeways, and that she was promised in marriage
+to a brewer's apprentice called Sowerbutt, she went back to her
+conventional hotel and persuaded her aunt to remove without delay. If
+Miss Schuyler were offered a room at the Punchbowl Inn in the
+Gillygate and a suite at the Grand Royal Hotel in Broad Street, she
+would choose the former unhesitatingly; just as she refused refreshment
+at the best caterer's this afternoon and dragged Mrs. Benedict and me
+into 'The Little Snug,' where an alluring sign over the door announced
+'A Homely Cup of Tea for Twopence.' But she would outgrow all that; or,
+if she didn't, I have common-sense enough for two; or if I hadn't, I
+shouldn't care a hang.
+
+Is it not a curious dispensation of Providence that, just when Aunt
+Celia is confined to her room with a cold, Mrs. Benedict should join our
+party and spend her days in our company? She drove to the Merchants'
+Hall and the Cavalry Barracks with us, she walked on the city walls with
+us, she even dared the 'homely' tea at 'The Little Snug'; and at that
+moment I determined I wouldn't build her memorial church for her, even
+at a most princely profit.
+
+On crossing Lendal Bridge we saw the river Ouse running placidly through
+the town, and a lot of little green boats moored at a landing-stage.
+
+'How delightful it would be to row for an hour!' exclaimed Miss
+Schuyler.
+
+'Oh, do you think so, in those tippy boats on a strange river?'
+remonstrated Mrs. Benedict.
+
+The moment I suspected she was afraid of the water, I lured her to the
+landing-stage and engaged a boat.
+
+'It's a pity that that large flat one has a leak, otherwise it would
+have held three nicely; but I dare say we can be comfortable in one of
+the little ones,' I said doubtfully.
+
+'Shan't we be too heavy for it?' Mrs. Benedict inquired timidly.
+
+'Oh, I don't think so. We'll get in and try it. If we find it sinks
+under our weight we won't risk it,' I replied, spurred on by such
+twinkles in Miss Schuyler's eyes as blinded me to everything else.
+
+'I really don't think your aunt would like you to venture, Miss
+Schuyler,' said the marplot.
+
+'Oh, as to that, she knows I am accustomed to boating,' replied Miss
+Schuyler.
+
+'And Miss Schuyler is such an excellent swimmer,' I added.
+
+Whereupon the marplot and killjoy remarked that if it were a question
+of swimming she should prefer to remain at home, as she had large
+responsibilities devolving upon her, and her life was in a sense not her
+own to fling away as she might like.
+
+I assured her solemnly that she was quite, quite right, and pushed off
+before she could change her mind.
+
+After a long interval of silence, Miss Schuyler observed in the voice,
+accompanied by the smile and the glance of the eye, that 'did' for me
+the moment I was first exposed to them:
+
+'You oughtn't to have said that about my swimming, because I can't a
+bit, you know.'
+
+'I was justified,' I answered gloomily. 'I have borne too much to-day,
+and if she had come with us and had fallen overboard, I might have been
+tempted to hold her down with the oar.'
+
+Whereupon Miss Schuyler gave way to such whole-hearted mirth that she
+nearly upset the boat. I almost wish she had! I want to swim, sink, die,
+or do any other mortal thing for her.
+
+We had a heavenly hour. It was only an hour, but it was the first time I
+have had any real chance to direct hot shot at the walls of the maiden
+castle. I regret to state that they stood remarkably firm. Of course, I
+don't wish to batter them down; I want them to melt under the warmth of
+my attack.
+
+
+_She_
+
+    York, _July 5_.
+
+
+We had a lovely sail on the river Ouse this afternoon. Mrs. Benedict was
+timid about boating, and did not come with us. As a usual thing, I hate
+a cowardly woman, but her lack of courage is the nicest trait in her
+whole character; I might almost say the only nice trait.
+
+Mr. Copley tried in every way, short of asking me a direct question, to
+find out whether I had received the marked copy of 'Persuasion' in Bath,
+but I evaded the point.
+
+Just as we were at the door of my lodging, and he was saying good-bye, I
+couldn't resist the temptation of asking:
+
+'Why, before you knew us at all, did you put "Miss Van Tyck: Reserved,"
+on the window of the railway carriage at Bath?'
+
+He was embarrassed for a moment, and then he said:
+
+'Well, she _is_, you know, if you come to that; and, besides, I didn't
+dare tell the guard the placard I really wanted to put on.'
+
+'I shouldn't think a lack of daring your most obvious fault,' I said
+cuttingly.
+
+'Perhaps not; but there are limits to most things, and I hadn't the
+pluck to paste on a pink paper with "Miss Schuyler: Engaged," on it.'
+
+He disappeared suddenly just then, as if he wasn't equal to facing my
+displeasure, and I am glad he did, for I was too embarrassed for words.
+
+Memoranda: _In the height of roofs, nave, and choir, York is first of
+English cathedrals._
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Durham, _July something or other_,
+        At Farmer Hendry's.
+
+
+We left York this morning, and arrived in Durham about eleven o'clock.
+It seems there is some sort of an election going on in the town, and
+there was not a single fly at the station. Mr. Copley looked about in
+every direction, but neither horse nor vehicle was to be had for love or
+money. At last we started to walk to the village, Mr. Copley so laden
+with our hand-luggage that he resembled a pack mule.
+
+We called first at the Three Tuns, where they still keep up the old
+custom of giving a wee glass of cherry-brandy to each guest on his
+arrival; but, alas! they were crowded, and we were turned from the
+hospitable door. We then made a tour of the inns, but not a single room
+was to be had, not for that night, nor for two days ahead, on account of
+that same election.
+
+'Hadn't we better go on to Edinburgh, Aunt Celia?' I asked, as we were
+resting in the door of the Jolly Sailor.
+
+'Edinburgh? Never!' she replied. 'Do you suppose that I would
+voluntarily spend a Sunday in those bare Presbyterian churches until the
+memory of these past ideal weeks has faded a little from my memory?
+What! leave out Durham and spoil the set?' (In her agitation and
+disappointment she spoke of the cathedrals as if they were souvenir
+spoons.) 'I intended to stay here for a week or more, and write up a
+record of our entire trip from Winchester while the impressions were
+fresh in my mind.'
+
+'And I had intended doing the same thing,' said Mr. Copley. 'That is, I
+hoped to finish off my previous sketches, which are in a frightful state
+of incompletion, and spend a good deal of time on the interior of this
+cathedral, which is unusually beautiful.'
+
+At this juncture Aunt Celia disappeared for a moment to ask the barmaid
+if, in her opinion, the constant consumption of malt liquors prevents a
+more dangerous indulgence in brandy and whisky. She is gathering
+statistics, but as the barmaids can never collect their thoughts while
+they are drawing ale, Aunt Celia proceeds slowly.
+
+'For my part,' said I, with mock humility, 'I am a docile person, who
+never has any intentions of her own, but who yields herself sweetly to
+the intentions of other people in her immediate vicinity.'
+
+'Are you?' asked Mr. Copley, taking out his pencil.
+
+'Yes, I said so. What are you doing?'
+
+'Merely taking note of your statement, that's all. Now, Miss Van Tyck'
+(of course Aunt Celia appeared at this delightful moment), 'I have a
+plan to propose. I was here last summer with a couple of Harvard men,
+and we lodged at a farmhouse about a mile distant from the cathedral. If
+you will step into the coffee-room for an hour, I'll walk up to Farmer
+Hendry's and see if they will take us in. I think we might be fairly
+comfortable.'
+
+'Can Aunt Celia have Apollinaris and black coffee after her morning
+bath?' I asked.
+
+'I hope, Katharine,' said Aunt Celia majestically--'I hope that I can
+accommodate myself to circumstances. If Mr. Copley can secure
+apartments for us, I shall be more than grateful.'
+
+So here we are, all lodging together in an ideal English farmhouse.
+There is a thatched roof on one of the old buildings, and the
+dairy-house is covered with ivy, and Farmer Hendry's wife makes a real
+English curtsey, and there are herds of beautiful sleek Durham cattle,
+and the butter and cream and eggs and mutton are delicious, and I never,
+never want to go home any more. I want to live here for ever and wave
+the American flag on Washington's birthday.
+
+I am so happy that I feel as if something were going to spoil it all.
+Twenty years old to-day! I wish mamma were alive to wish me many happy
+returns.
+
+The cathedral is very beautiful in itself, and its situation is beyond
+all words of mine to describe. I greatly admired the pulpit, which is
+supported by five pillars sunk into the backs of squashed lions; but
+Mr. Copley, when I asked him the period, said, 'Pure Brummagem!'
+
+There is a nice old cell for refractory monks, that we agreed will be a
+lovely place for Mrs. Benedict if we can lose her in it. She arrives as
+soon as they can find room for her at the Three Tuns.
+
+Memoranda:--Casual remark for breakfast-table or perhaps for
+luncheon--it is a trifle heavy for breakfast: _'Since the sixteenth
+century, and despite the work of Inigo Jones and the great Wren_ (not
+Jenny Wren: Christopher), _architecture has had, in England especially,
+no legitimate development.' This is the only cathedral with a Bishop's
+Throne or a Sanctuary Knocker._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Durham, _July 19_.
+
+
+O child of fortune, thy name is J. Q. Copley! How did it happen to be
+election time? Why did the inns chance to be full? How did Aunt Celia
+relax sufficiently to allow me to find her a lodging? Why did she fall
+in love with the lodging when found? I do not know. I only know Fate
+smiles; that Kitty and I eat our morning bacon and eggs together; that I
+carve Kitty's cold beef and pour Kitty's sparkling ale at luncheon; that
+I go to matins with Kitty, and dine with Kitty, and walk in the gloaming
+with Kitty--and Aunt Celia. And after a day of heaven like this, like
+Lorna Doone's lover--ay, and like every other lover, I suppose--I go to
+sleep, and the roof above me swarms with angels, having Kitty under it.
+
+She was so beautiful on Sunday. She has been wearing her favourite
+browns and primroses through the week, but on Sunday she blossomed into
+blue and white, topped by a wonderful hat, whose brim was laden with
+hyacinths. She sat on the end of a seat in the nave, and there was a
+capped and gowned crowd of university students in the transept. I
+watched them and they watched her. She has the fullest, whitest eyelids,
+and the loveliest lashes. When she looks down I wish she might never
+look up, and when she looks up I am never ready for her to look down. If
+it had been a secular occasion, and she had dropped her handkerchief,
+seven-eighths of the students would have started to pick it up--but I
+should have got there first! Well, all this is but a useless prelude,
+for there are facts to be considered--delightful, warm, breathing facts!
+
+We were coming home from evensong, Kitty and I. (I am anticipating, for
+she was still 'Miss Schuyler' then, but never mind.) We were walking
+through the fields, while Mrs. Benedict and Aunt Celia were driving. As
+we came across a corner of the bit of meadow land that joins the stable
+and the garden, we heard a muffled roar, and as we looked around we saw
+a creature with tossing horns and waving tail making for us, head down,
+eyes flashing. Kitty gave a shriek. We chanced to be near a pair of low
+bars. I hadn't been a college athlete for nothing. I swung Kitty over
+the bars, and jumped after her. But she, not knowing in her fright where
+she was nor what she was doing, supposing also that the mad creature,
+like the villain in the play, would 'still pursue her,' flung herself
+bodily into my arms, crying, 'Jack! Jack! save me!'
+
+It was the first time she had called me 'Jack,' and I needed no second
+invitation. I proceeded to save her, in the usual way, by holding her
+to my heart and kissing her lovely hair reassuringly as I murmured:
+
+'You are safe, my darling; not a hair of your precious head shall be
+hurt. Don't be frightened.'
+
+She shivered like a leaf.
+
+'I am frightened,' she said; 'I can't help being frightened. He will
+chase us, I know. Where is he? What is he doing now?'
+
+Looking up to determine if I need abbreviate this blissful moment, I saw
+the enraged animal disappearing in the side-door of the barn; and it was
+a nice, comfortable Durham cow, that somewhat rare but possible thing--a
+sportive cow.
+
+'Is he gone?' breathed Kitty from my waistcoat.
+
+'Yes, he is gone--she is gone, darling. But don't move; it may come
+again.'
+
+My first too hasty assurance had calmed Kitty's fears, and she raised
+her charming flushed face from its retreat and prepared to withdraw. I
+did not facilitate the preparations, and a moment of awkward silence
+ensued.
+
+'Might I inquire,' I asked, 'if the dear little person at present
+reposing in my arms will stay there (with intervals for rest and
+refreshment) for the rest of her natural life?'
+
+She withdrew entirely now, all but her hand, and her eyes sought the
+ground.
+
+'I suppose I shall have to--that is, if you think--at least, I suppose
+you do think--at any rate, you look as if you were thinking--that this
+has been giving you encouragement.'
+
+'I do indeed--decisive, undoubted, bare-faced encouragement.'
+
+'I don't think I ought to be judged as if I were in my sober senses,'
+she replied. 'I was frightened within an inch of my life. I told you
+this morning that I was dreadfully afraid of bulls, especially mad ones,
+and I told you that my nurse frightened me, when I was a child, with
+awful stories about them, and that I never outgrew my childish terror. I
+looked everywhere about. The barn was too far, the fence too high; I saw
+him coming, and there was nothing but you and the open country. Of
+course, I took you. It was very natural, I'm sure; any girl would have
+done it.'
+
+'To be sure,' I replied soothingly, 'any girl would have run after me,
+as you say.'
+
+'I didn't say any girl would have run after you--you needn't flatter
+yourself; and besides, I think I was really trying to protect you as
+well as to gain protection, else why should I have cast myself on you
+like a catamount, or a catacomb, or whatever the thing is?'
+
+'Yes, darling, I thank you for saving my life, and I am willing to
+devote the remainder of it to your service as a pledge of my gratitude;
+but if you should take up life-saving as a profession, dear, don't throw
+yourself on a fellow with--'
+
+'Jack! Jack!' she cried, putting her hand over my lips, and getting it
+well kissed in consequence. 'If you will only forget that, and never,
+never taunt me with it afterwards, I'll--I'll--well, I'll do anything in
+reason--yes, even marry you!'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_He_
+
+    Canterbury, _July 31_,
+        The Royal Fountain.
+
+
+I was never sure enough of Kitty, at first, to dare risk telling her
+about that little mistake of hers. She is such an elusive person that I
+spend all my time in wooing her, and can never lay the flattering
+unction to my soul that she is really won.
+
+But after Aunt Celia had looked up my family record and given a
+provisional consent, and Papa Schuyler had cabled a reluctant blessing,
+I did not feel capable of any further self-restraint.
+
+It was twilight here in Canterbury, and we were sitting on the
+vine-shaded veranda of Aunt Celia's lodging. Kitty's head was on my
+shoulder. There is something very queer about that; when Kitty's head is
+on my shoulder, I am not capable of any consecutive train of thought.
+When she puts it there I see stars, then myriads of stars, then, oh! I
+can't begin to enumerate the steps by which ecstasy mounts to delirium;
+but, at all events, any operation which demands exclusive use of the
+intellect is beyond me at these times. Still, I gathered my stray wits
+together, and said:
+
+'Kitty!'
+
+'Yes, Jack?'
+
+'Now that nothing but death or marriage can separate us, I have
+something to confess to you.'
+
+'Yes,' she said serenely, 'I know what you are going to say. He was a
+cow.'
+
+I lifted her head from my shoulder sternly, and gazed into her
+childlike, candid eyes.
+
+'You mountain of deceit! How long have you known about it?'
+
+[Illustration: "Lor', miss!" said Farmer Hendry, "he haven't been
+pastured there for three weeks"]
+
+'Ever since the first. Oh, Jack, stop looking at me in that way! Not the
+very first, not when I--not when you--not when we--no, not then, but the
+next morning, I said to Farmer Hendry, "I wish you would keep your
+savage bull chained up while we are here; Aunt Celia is awfully afraid
+of them, especially those that go mad, like yours!" "Lor', miss!" said
+Farmer Hendry, "he haven't been pastured here for three weeks. I keep
+him six mile away. There ben't nothing but gentle cows in the home
+medder." But I didn't think that you knew, you secretive person! I dare
+say you planned the whole thing in advance, in order to take advantage
+of my fright!'
+
+'Never! I am incapable of such an unnecessary subterfuge! Besides,
+Kitty, I could not have made an accomplice of a cow, you know.'
+
+'Then,' she said, with great dignity, 'if you had been a gentleman and a
+man of honour, you would have cried, "Unhand me, girl! You are clinging
+to me under a misunderstanding!"'
+
+
+_She_
+
+    Chester, _August 8_,
+        The Grosvenor.
+
+
+Jack and I are going over this same ground next summer on our wedding
+journey. We shall sail for home next week, and we haven't half done
+justice to the cathedrals. After the first two, we saw nothing but each
+other on a general background of architecture. I hope my mind is
+improved, but oh, I am so hazy about all the facts I have read since I
+knew Jack! Winchester and Salisbury stand out superbly in my memory.
+They acquired their ground before it was occupied with other matters. I
+shall never forget, for instance, that Winchester has the longest spire
+and Salisbury the highest nave of all the English cathedrals. And I
+shall never forget so long as I live that Jane Austen and Isaac Newt--
+Oh dear! was it Isaac Newton or Izaak Walton that was buried in
+Winchester and Salisbury? To think that that interesting fact should
+have slipped from my mind, after all the trouble I took with it! But I
+know that it was Isaac somebody, and that he was buried in--well, he was
+buried in one of those two places. I am not certain which, but I can ask
+Jack; he is sure to know.
+
+
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