In the town he will meet pleasant faces of men and women, and
see beautiful flowers at a window, or hear a cage-bird singing at
the corner of the gloomiest street; and for the country, there is
no country without some amenity - let him only look for it in the
right spirit, and he will surely find.
Footnotes:
{1} The Second Part here referred to is entitled 'ACROSS THE
PLAINS,' and is printed in the volume so entitled, together with
other Memories and Essays.
{2} I had nearly finished the transcription of the following pages
when I saw on a friend's table the number containing the piece from
which this sentence is extracted, and, struck with a similarity of
title, took it home with me and read it with indescribable
satisfaction. I do not know whether I more envy M. Theuriet the
pleasure of having written this delightful article, or the reader
the pleasure, which I hope he has still before him, of reading it
once and again, and lingering over the passages that please him
most.
{3} William Abercrombie. See Fasti Ecclesia Scoticanae, under
'Maybole' (Part iii.).
{4} 'Duex poures varlez qui n'ont nulz gages et qui gissoient la
nuit avec les chiens.' See Champollion - Figeac's Louis et Charles
d'Orleans, i. 63, and for my lord's English horn, ibid. 96.
{5} Reprinted by permission of John Lane.
{6} 'Jehovah Tsidkenu,' translated in the Authorised Version as
'The Lord our Righteousness' (Jeremiah xxiii. 6 and xxxiii. 16).
{7} Compare Blake, in the Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
'Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads, without
improvement, are roads of Genius.'
*** END OF Essays of Travel, by Robert Louis Stevenson***
