Let us conclude our remarks on this subject with an extract from the
published diary of a pedestrian, who thus describes his journey from
Lisieux to Caen, a distance of about twenty-six miles:--
'It is nightfall,' he says, 'before I have walked more than
half-way to Caen; to the left of the road I see a number of lights
indicative of a small town, but I perceive no road in that
direction, and so am compelled to trudge on. I was dreadfully
fatigued, for I had walked about Lisieux before starting. In the
faint light, I thought I saw a dog cross the road just before me,
but soon perceived that it must be a spectral one, the result of
excessive fatigue. At length I reach a lamp-post, with the light
still burning, indicating that I am in the suburbs of Caen. The
road proceeds down a steep hill. I don't know how long it would
seem to the visitor in the ordinary way, but to myself, prostrated
by fatigue, it appeared on this night a long and weary tramp.'--'A
Walking Tour in Normandy!'
CHAPTER XI.
_ARCHITECTURE AND COSTUME._
In the course of our little pilgrimage through Normandy, it may have
been thought that we dwelt with too much earnestness and enthusiasm on
the architecture of the middle ages, as applicable to buildings in the
nineteenth century. Let us repeat our belief, that it is in its
_adaptability_ to our wants, both practical and artistic, that its true
value consists.
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