Americans -- England -- Fiction; Diary fiction; England -- Description and travel -- Fiction; Love stories
"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 honor, 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
trip. 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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