Americans -- England -- Fiction; Courtship -- Fiction; Women travelers -- England -- Fiction
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.
THE END
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