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And far away at the end of the valley, Windermere, Queen of the Lakes, reposed, gleaming silvery blue. This fair, open eye completed the picture. In that was the soul revealed. I wished I had had my sketch-book to draw just the outlines, but was not too sorry, because I intended to go again, and then I would have it. Now I was content to gaze alone.
While speaking of Elleray, we should pay a passing tribute of gratitude to an older worthy of that neighborhood, the well-known Bishop of Llandaff, Richard Watson, who did more for the beauty of Windermere than any other person.
Then a little way after Lancaster you'll begin to see some mountains, far, far away, but first you'll see something else just a little bit of blue sea, with mountains on the other side of it. And then will come Windermere, where we shall get out and drive in a carriage.
Beautiful ponds, as they modestly call themselves, one of which, Walden, is as well known in our literature as Windermere in that of Old England, lie quietly in their clean basins. And through the green meadows runs, or rather lounges, a gentle, unsalted stream, like an English river, licking its grassy margin with a sort of bovine placidity and contentment.
I remember well my intense delight at my first introduction to mountains worthy of the name. But I mean to mention here two only of my reminiscences of that first visit to lake-land. The first of these concerns an excursion on Windermere with Captain Hamilton, the author of Cyril Thornton, which had at that time made its mark.
The same thought was in their minds. But Nelly, restored to momentary calmness by her own suggestion, went quickly to Farrell, who with his sister and Marsworth was standing a little way off. 'I must go to London to-night, Sir William. Could you order something for me? 'I'll take you to Windermere, Mrs. Sarratt, said Cicely before her brother could reply. 'The motor's there now.
But it was a long long way to Windermere, and poor Milly and Olly began to get very tired. The trees at Wigan did make them laugh a little bit, but they were too tired to think them as funny as they would have thought them in the morning. They are such comical trees!
But it went up higher and higher, and for the mile or two that it led me along, winding up, I saw no traces of a town; but at last it turned into a valley between two high ridges, leading quite away from the lake, within view of which the town of Windermere is situated.
From Orrest Head, near the village of Windermere, there is a magnificent view of the lake from end to end, though tourists prefer usually to go to the village of Bowness on the bank, where steamers start at frequent intervals and make the circuit of the pretty lake.
And in her moral unrest she showed faults which had been scarcely visible in their early married years impatience, temper, suspicion, a readiness to magnify small troubles whether of health or circumstance. During her months alone she had been reading many novels of an indifferent sort, which the carrier brought her from the lending library at Windermere.
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