. The book of months . FEBRUARY after a month in Switzerland, has been adjustedto low temperature, and the effect of the changeis the same as that produced by a tepid bath inthe morning instead of a cold one. Briskness ofbody and spirit alike vanish, and to-day, thoughI am accustomed to these annual visitations, Iwent so far as to take my temperature, therebeing, as I well knew, nothing whatever thematter with me. Of course it was normal. This transition weather has now lasted aweek, but there have been certain intervals andalleviations. One of these occurred last Sun-day. I went in the aftern
. The book of months . FEBRUARY after a month in Switzerland, has been adjustedto low temperature, and the effect of the changeis the same as that produced by a tepid bath inthe morning instead of a cold one. Briskness ofbody and spirit alike vanish, and to-day, thoughI am accustomed to these annual visitations, Iwent so far as to take my temperature, therebeing, as I well knew, nothing whatever thematter with me. Of course it was normal. This transition weather has now lasted aweek, but there have been certain intervals andalleviations. One of these occurred last Sun-day. I went in the afternoon to the Oratory atBrompton and heard that service of vesperand benediction which, whether mumbled unin-telligibly by a shabby priest in an empty churchor conducted with that splendid sense of form which characterizes the Oratory, never fails togive me a feeling of uplifting which I cannothope to express. There in the morning has thesymbol of that divine mystery been laid on the27 yW
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