Haunts of ancient peace . propose to give any indicationof our itinerary, or yet of the names of placeswhere we made our various halts, had ourvarious conversations, visited Haunts of An-cient Peace, and sojourned, when we would,for so many days. But those who know Eng-land well will, I imagine, be able to give afairly good guess as to the local habitation andthe name of them all, or, at any rate, of mostof them; and, even if sometimes they areout in their reckoning, what does it matter? Think it so, and so it is ; and, just as arose by any other name would smell as sweet,so a slowly moulderin
Haunts of ancient peace . propose to give any indicationof our itinerary, or yet of the names of placeswhere we made our various halts, had ourvarious conversations, visited Haunts of An-cient Peace, and sojourned, when we would,for so many days. But those who know Eng-land well will, I imagine, be able to give afairly good guess as to the local habitation andthe name of them all, or, at any rate, of mostof them; and, even if sometimes they areout in their reckoning, what does it matter? Think it so, and so it is ; and, just as arose by any other name would smell as sweet,so a slowly mouldering ruin, a village theworld forgetting, by the world forgot, a humble,pious parsonage, a semi-feudal Castle, do notlose their charm or their dignity, because thematerial imagination calls them by a wrongappellation. Is it not enough to say, Whata heavenly spot, what a divine place! Howcopiously the Poet talked to-day after their in-the-open-air mid-day meal! Verily Lamia sur-passed herself yesterday in sportive levity, in. HAUNTS OF ANCIENT PEACE 19 mirthful melancholy, in electric sympathy, inilluminating paradox ! If sometimes you feellike that concerning what I have to tell, and Ishall offer you only what seems to me thecream, such as it is, of all that happened to us,the obscure narrator will be well content. I trust it is thoroughly understood, saidLamia, when we were a few miles from home, since the following ten days, fortnight, orthree weeks, whichever it may be, are to bededicated, in a sacrificial spirit, entirely to mydelectation, and no other member of the partywill have any enjoyment save the exhilaratingsense of benevolent altruism, that I shall betaken nowhere, see nothing, and converse withnobody, that is not ancient. I wish to see OldEngland, or so much of it as is left. Yet, I ventured to plead, for this partic-ular conversation was between Lamia and meonly, is there not much in it that is more orless new, well worth seeing, and strongly ap-pealing to the intel
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