lds 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._

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_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 surre