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and came into the dear old town full of glee and expectation. Mr Darwin knows a great deal of most things generally - and we had been reading up Canterbury too in the [[leeway?]]—  We drove right to the Fountain Inn - an old made over one which most of them are. The oldest things dont generally look so very old because they are often built over and the old impression goes—   We enquired at once for the Powells whom I was crazy to see but our polite inn-keeper had never heard of him!   This evidently made Mr D. think he was not much of a personage but we asked at the P.O. and they told us where Richmond House was and that Mr P was a surveyor—  This did not change my opinion of him but I think it did Mr D. though he tried not to have it. (N.B. all English people are snobs at heart though some of them conceal it better than others) 
The Cathedral made me feel more than anything else has over here since my first night of the Rubens pictures in Antwerp—  I nearly cried when I stood under those big arches—  The softest 

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creamy grey high, high, high and simple with a delicate lilac light falling accross [[across]] the neat columners and in the distance the pike Gothic carving of the screen and steps leading up into the choir. This latter arrangement very unusual - the voices the incense and candles and people kneeling in an English cathedral. They have a morning and evening choir service and we heard this the next morning very sweet and perfect of course - one gets to expect this— I went up the steps over the deep grooves worn by the knees of pilgrims, our ancient cicerone letting off h's & not h's with the greatest volubility - and I saw the "toom" of the Blk Prince with his real harmor and elmet anging hover it - [underlined]hand [/underlined] 'is gloves wich e wore hat the battle hof I dont know what, Crécy probably—   and the spot where T. à B. was murdured. Though the whole place is changed now - the crypt and cloisters are particularly beautiful and perfect - and in the crypt is a nice little chapel where the remnants of the Huguenots still have a service every Sunday. Queen Elizabeth granted them the right to put up their looms in the crypt and a great colony of them settled there.

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* armor and helmet hanging over it - and 'is gloves which he wore at the battle of I dont know what,