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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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+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
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