It is too new to be properly dealt with immediately after coming
from the scene.
The castle is not at all crumbly, but in excellent repair, though so
venerable. There are rooks cawing about the shapeless patches of their
nests, in the tops of the trees. In the castle wall, as well as in the
round towers of the gateway, there seem to be little tenements, perhaps
inhabited by the servants and dependants of the family. They looked in
very good order, with tokens of present domesticity about them. The
whole of this old castle, indeed, was as neat as a new, small dwelling,
in spite of an inevitable musty odor of antiquity.
April 11th.--This morning we took a carriage and two horses, and set out
for
BOLTON PRIORY,
a distance of about six miles. The morning was cool, with breezy clouds,
intermingled with sunshine, and, on the whole, as good as are nine tenths
of English mornings. J----- sat beside the driver, and S----- and I in
the carriage, all closed but one window. As we drove through Skipton,
the little town had a livelier aspect than yesterday when it wore its
Good Friday's solemnity; but now its market-place was thronged,
principally with butchers, displaying their meat under little movable
pent-houses, and their customers. The English people really like to
think and talk of butcher's meat, and gaze at it with delight; and they
crowd through the avenues of the market-houses and stand enraptured round
a dead ox.
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