than in present is:

Not that he may not here
Taste of the cheer,
But as birds drink and straight lift up the head,
So must he sip and think
Of better drink
He may attain to after he is dead.
--HERBERT

Guy returned to Hollywell on the Friday, there to spend a quiet week
with them all, for it was a special delight to Amy that Hollywell and
her family were as precious to him for their own sakes as for hers. It
was said that it was to be a quiet week--but with all the best efforts
of Mrs. Edmonstone and Laura to preserve quiet, there was an amount, of
confusion that would have been very disturbing, but for Amy's propensity
never to be ruffled or fluttered.

What was to be done in the honeymoon was the question for consideration.
Guy and Amy would have liked to make a tour among the English
cathedrals, pay a visit at Hollywell, and then go home and live in a
corner of the house till the rest was ready; for Amy could not see why
she should take up so much more room than old Sir Guy, and Guy declared
he could not see that happiness was a reason for going pleasure-hunting;
but Charles pronounced this very stupid, and Mr. Edmonstone thought a
journey on the Continent was the only proper thing for them to do. Mrs.
Edmonstone wished Amy to see a little of the world. Amy was known to
have always desired to see Switzerland; it occurred to Guy that it would
be a capital opportunity of taking Arnaud to see the relations he
had been talking for the last twenty years of visiting, and so they
acquiesced; for as Guy said, when they talked it over together, it did
not seem to him to come under the denomination of pleasure-hunting,
since they had not devised it for themselves; they had no house to
go to; they should do Arnaud a service, and perhaps they should meet
Philip.

'That will not be pleasure-hunting, certainly,' said Amy; then,
remembering that he could not bear to hear Philip under-rated, she
added, 'I mean, unless you could convince him, and then it would be more
than pleasure.'

'It would be my first of unattained wishes,' said Guy. 'Then we will
enjoy the journey.'

'No fear on that score,'

'And for fear we should get too much into the stream of enjoyment, as
people abroad forget home-duties, let us stick to some fixed time for
coming back.'

'You said Redclyffe would be ready by Michaelmas.'

'I have told the builder it must be. So, Amy, as f