"Yes, and from the wind too, in winter."
"Do you not feel as if you are treading on hallowed ground, Grace? I experience emotions among ruins felt nowhere else."
Both she and Henry Herbert felt a delight in being there, and the former especially tried to people the scene as it was of old, and realise the days of the far-away time which it represented.
"There is a spring issuing from a rock, and the water is cool and most delicious. Try it for yourselves."
They found it very refreshing; and having drunk some, they entered the chapel. It is very beautiful, decorated like a cathedral, and almost perfect.
"Each proper ornament was there
That should a chapel grace,
The lattice for confession framed,
And holy water vase."
"Is it not a wonderful place?" exclaimed the girls; "it is all in good condition—the altar is quite entire."
"And so is the monument to Isabel Widdrington."
It was with difficulty that they could bring themselves to leave a place so interesting on account of its hallowed associations; but as they wished also to visit Dunstanborough, they could not delay their departure.
Dunstanborough Castle stands upon a bold basaltic rock, and is thirty feet above the sea-level It is supposed to have been built by the Lancaster family, in the year 1315, and the Yorkists destroyed it after the battle of Hexham. It has never been rebuilt, and nothing is left of it but its outer walls.