Alden Lytton and Victor Hartman rode on horseback, and brought up the rear.
Their way lay through the most sublime and beautiful mountain and valley scenery.
Monticello is built upon a mountain, some three miles south of the village.
Perhaps there is no private dwelling in the whole country occupying a more elevated site, or commanding a more magnificent panorama of landscape, than Monticello.
It is a fine country house of great architectural beauty and strength, built upon a lofty and slightly inclined plain, formed by grading the top of the mountain.
It commands a stupendous prospect, bounded only by the spherical form of the earth. And standing there, with the earth beneath and the heavens all around, one fully realizes that we live upon a great planet rolling in its orbit through immense space.
Our party spent a long summer's day up there in the sunshine, and then, after eating the luncheon they had brought with them, they set out on their return to the village, where they arrived in time for one of Mrs. Wheatfield's delicious early teas.
The remaining days of the week were passed in walking, riding or driving to the most interesting points of the neighborhood.
On Saturday morning they took leave of the bishop's widow and set out for Richmond, en route for Wendover and Blue Cliffs.
They reached the city late on the same night, and took up their old quarters at the Henrico House.