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1 DECEMBER AND JANUARY, 1835-36 In the long and intricately inwrought chain of circumstance which renders worthy of record sorove, and others, the first event directly influencing the issue was a Christmas visit

In the above- architect who had just begun the practice of his profession in the e, to the north of Christminster, went to London to spend the Christmas holidays with a friend who lived in Blooe in the saether, Huntway, the friend, had taken orders

Graye was handsoht which, exercised on homeliness, was humour; on nature, picturesqueness; on abstractions, poetry Being, as a rule, broadcast, it was all three

Of the wickedness of the world he was too forgetful To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience: to him it was ever a surprise

While in London he became acquainted with a retired officer in the Navy nahter, lived in a street not far froh they were in no more than comfortable circuenealogical tree was interlaced with sodohter, see he had ever beheld She was about nineteen or twenty, and her nairls of that type of beauty, except in one respect She was perfect in herpeculiarity, by catching the eye, is often read as the pervading characteristic, and she appeared to hi her rural rivals in very nature Graye did a thing the blissfulness of which was only eclipsed by its hazardousness He loved her at first sight

His introductions had led him into contact with Cytherea and her parents two or three times on the first week of his arrival in London, and accident and a lover's contrivance brought the The parents liked young Graye, and having few friends (for their equals in blood were their superiors in position), he was received on very generous ter, but ineffably exalted: she, without positively encouraging hi near her Her father and mother seemed to have lost all confidence in nobility of birth, without ive effect to its presence, and looked upon the budding consequence of the young people's reciprocal glances with placidity, if not actual favour