But what richness of carvin’ and design is to be seen on every side; every ornament that wuz ever carved, it seems to me, wuz here on the tall pillows and arches. And that east winder—wall, I wake up in the night now, and think on’t, the perfect wonder and symetry of its design, and the marvels of its stun sculptur.
But how different folks look at things! Al Faizi, as he looked up and around him, took in the beauty and majesty of the seen in every pore, as you may say—you could see that in his liniment.
Alice wuz took up with some of the marvellous statutes and sculpturs of wreath and blossom. And Adrian wuz a-pickin’ some flowers. It beat all what a case that child wuz for flowers. And Josiah wuz took up, I guess, with musin’ on the failure of his romantic idees, as he sauntered about. But Martin, when he’d been there about an hour, he come up to me, and sez he—
“Now, having seen everything there is to see here, I think we had better go. I expect some letters and telegrams,” sez he, “and I’ve seen sufficient to reply to any inquiries that could be made of me at home.”
Everything we could see! Why, I could have hung right round there for a week and discovered some new wonder and beauty every hour.
But it wuz compromised in this way: Martin went back to the hotel, and Josiah and Adrian went with him. And Al Faizi and Alice and I stayed till night wuz a-drawin’ down her mantilly previous to puttin’ it on.
The soft linin’ on’t of crimson and gold wuz turned over in the west as we walked back to the little hotel.
Wall, the next mornin’, bright and early, Martin got a carriage, and we drove three miles to Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott.
By Martin’s advice (that man has good practical idees) we took our waterproofs and umbrells. And glad enough wuz we that we did; why, in all our trips almost waterproofs wuz neccessary companions; for short, quick showers would descend upon us at any time seemin’ly, and then pass away jest as quick.
Three showers come up that very day, but two on ’em took place when we wuz inside, and the third jest before we got home at night, so umbrells and waterproofs saved us from damage.