Americans -- England -- Fiction; Courtship -- Fiction; Women travelers -- England -- Fiction
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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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