MEETING.

The season now for calm, familiar talk,

Like youths and maidens in an evening walk.

Pope’s Iliad, Book xxii.


CHAPTER II.

Saturday, April 10, 1880.

HE features of the landscape below Thililit combined so happily together from many points that, upon a second visit, we agreed this spot was as choice as the heart of painter could desire, and provided more subjects than we could grapple with.