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Rh try to recall exactly what his idea of seeing England, of himself and aright, had been.

He had recalled it with an effort and started boldly off; and then—he laughed now honestly at himself as he considered the fairness of the description the Englishman had just given of his subsequent behavior. For—with a few shamed intermissions—during the past three weeks since he landed, he had found himself bursting into the cathedral towns almost precisely as the Briton had said; and—doing the rest, as Mr. Dunneston had sketched to him.

And though he had not yet found them, for a healthy person who still retained some sense of humor, the cathedral towns had not been entirely without compensations. The first and greater was the Briton watching him sternly from across the table. The other? Young Preston applied himself to his newspaper. 15