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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 13: closing years (search)
esence of that beautiful spectacle, but quite the contrary? He wrote to Bernard Barton:-- I was surprised into confessing what I might have as well kept to myself, that I had been guilty of sending persons a bat-hunting to see the ruins of Melrose by moonlight, which I never saw myself. The fact is rather curious, for as I have often slept nights at Melrose (when I did not reside so near the place), it is singular that I have not seen it by moonlight on some chance occasion. However, itMelrose (when I did not reside so near the place), it is singular that I have not seen it by moonlight on some chance occasion. However, it so happens that I never did, and must (unless I get cold on purpose) be contented with supposing that these ruins look very like other Gothic buildings which I have seen by the wan light of the moon. Letters and poems of Bernard Barton, by his daughter, p. 147. This was carried so far by Whittier that during all his visits to the White Mountains, he never could be tempted to go to Quebec, but said, I know all about it, by books and pictures, as if I had seen it. Yet how much he enjoyed th