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    A Cathedral Courtship
    A Cathedral Courtship
    A Cathedral Courtship
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    A Cathedral Courtship

    By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateSep 1, 1999

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      A Cathedral Courtship - Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

      A Cathedral Courtship, by Kate Douglas Wiggin

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      Title: A Cathedral Courtship

      Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin

      Release Date: July 7, 2008 [eBook #1551]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP***

      Transcribed from the 1893 Gay and Bird edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP

      by

      KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

      WITH FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

      BY CLIFFORD CARLETON

      LONDON: GAY AND BIRD

      5 CHANDOS STREET STRAND

      1893

      All rights reserved

      First Edition June 1893.

      Second Edition July 1893.

      Third Edition September 1893.

      Fourth Edition November 1893.

      Fifth Edition October 1894.

      to my boston friend

      SALEMINA

      no anglomaniac, but

      a true briton

      SHE

      Winchester, May 28, 1891

      The Royal Garden Inn.

      We are doing the English cathedral towns, aunt Celia and I.  Aunt Celia has an intense desire to improve my mind.  Papa told her, when we were leaving Cedarhurst, that he wouldn’t for the world have it too much improved, and aunt Celia remarked that, so far as she could judge, there was no immediate danger; with which exchange of hostilities they parted.

      We are traveling under the yoke of an iron itinerary, warranted neither to bend nor break.  It was made out by a young High Church curate in New York, and if it had been blessed by all the bishops and popes it could not be more sacred to aunt Celia.  She is awfully High Church, and I believe she thinks this tour of the cathedrals will give me a taste for ritual and bring me into the true fold.  I have been hearing dear old Dr. Kyle a great deal lately, and aunt Celia says that he is the most dangerous Unitarian she knows, because he has leanings towards Christianity.

      Long ago, in her youth, she was engaged to a young architect.  He, with his triangles and T-squares and things, succeeded in making an imaginary scale-drawing of her heart (up to that time a virgin forest, an unmapped territory), which enabled him to enter in and set up a pedestal there, on which he has remained ever since.  He has been only a memory for many years, to be sure, for he died at the age of twenty-six, before he had had time to build anything but a livery stable and a country hotel.  This is fortunate, on the whole, because aunt Celia thinks he was destined to establish American architecture on a higher plane,—rid it of its base, time-serving, imitative instincts, and waft it to a height where, in the course of centuries, we should have been revered and followed by all the nations of the earth.  I went to see the livery stable, after one of these Miriam-like flights of prophecy on the might-have-been.  It isn’t fair to judge a man’s promise by one performance, and that one a livery stable, so I shall say nothing.

      This sentiment about architecture and this fondness for the very toppingest High Church ritual cause aunt Celia to look on the English cathedrals with solemnity and reverential awe.  She has given me a fat notebook, with Katharine Schuyler stamped in gold letters on the Russia leather cover, and a lock and key to protect its

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