. Little journeys abroad . look lively and see wewere all in the brake again in half an hourif we wished to see Chatsworth too. Sowith hurried steps we passed under the oldstone gateway and through the Duke ofRutlands castle. Through the kitchen,offices, and chapel we went, where thepriest showed us the traces of the altarsbuilt before the Reformation, ladies,through the bedrooms, through the ban-queting-hall, decorated everywhere withthe family arms of the peacock and wildboar. Passing through the very door fromwhich on the occasion of some festivityDorothy Vernon escaped to elope with SirJoh
. Little journeys abroad . look lively and see wewere all in the brake again in half an hourif we wished to see Chatsworth too. Sowith hurried steps we passed under the oldstone gateway and through the Duke ofRutlands castle. Through the kitchen,offices, and chapel we went, where thepriest showed us the traces of the altarsbuilt before the Reformation, ladies,through the bedrooms, through the ban-queting-hall, decorated everywhere withthe family arms of the peacock and wildboar. Passing through the very door fromwhich on the occasion of some festivityDorothy Vernon escaped to elope with SirJohn Manners (thus bringing the estateinto the family of the Duke of Rutland),down the very stone steps her pretty feettrod into the terraced garden, we strolledfor a little among the flower-beds, to look up at the vine-clad, battlemented walls and 20 3°<5 LITTLE JOURNEYS ABROAD. to wish that we had enough American dol-lars with us judiciously to restore the cas-tle. One of the party, I know, was already ^*NN§t *%]£«£. RURAL ENGLAND. at work on a musical theme under the yew-trees, and another was meditating verseswhen the impatient guard sent us a mes-sage that we must be off. An hour or so more brought us to Chats-worth, the property of the Duke of Devon- IZAAK WALTONS COUNTRY. 307 shire. Lord Frederick Cavendish, thevictim of the Phoenix Park murder, isburied in the churchyard in the village ofEdensor, just at the gates of members of the Cavendish familyare buried in All Saints Church in Derby,where there are monuments to theirmemory. Egeria went conscientiouslyover the palace and through the flower-gardens ; but I contented myself with theview from the bridge of the exterior of thegreat building with its hundred gold-rimmedwindows, and with a friend who felt like-wise inclined, walked over to the inn atEdensor to order tea. So charmed werewe with the inn and the lovely Englishlandscape surrounding it, that we asked forthe tariff, and seriously considere
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