uded with care as he walked along. Not only
was his heart clouded, but his brain also was oppressed, and he reeled so
much on leaving the confectioner's shop, that he had to catch hold of
some railings till the faintness and giddiness left him. He knew the
feeling to be the same as what he had felt on the Friday evening, but he
had no idea of the cause, and as soon as the giddiness left him he
thought there was nothing the matter with him.

Turning down a side street that led into the main square of the town, he
found himself opposite the south end of the temple, with its two lofty
towers that flanked the richly decorated main entrance. I will not
attempt to describe the architecture, for my father could give me little
information on this point. He only saw the south front for two or three
minutes, and was not impressed by it, save in so far as it was richly
ornamented--evidently at great expense--and very large. Even if he had
had a longer look, I doubt whether I should have got more out of him, for
he knew nothing of architecture, and I fear his test whether a building
was good or bad, was whether it looked old and weather-beaten or no. No
matter what a building was, if it was three or four hundred years old he
liked it, whereas, if it was new, he would look to nothing but whether it
kept the rain out. Indeed I have heard him say that the mediaeval
sculpture on some of our great cathedrals often only pleases us because
time and weather have set their seals upon it, and that if we could see
it as it was when it left the mason's hands, we should find it no better
than much that is now turned out in the Euston Road.

The ground plan here given will help the reader to understand the few
following pages more easily.

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