"In time we shall be able to commit our afterthoughts to it.

But lost views can hardly be managed that way.
After I get home I shall think of scores of things I should like to see again--that photographs don't give." "Such as-- ?" "Oh--the way the Pope looks when he gives his blessing at St.Peter's; and the feeling you have when you stand by Napoleon's tomb--the awfulness of what he did and was--and being here in Switzerland, where I always feel somehow the pressure of all the past of Europe about me.

Now,"-- and she laughed lightly,--"I have made a most serious confession." "It is a new idea--that of surveying the ages from these mountains.

They must be very wise after all these years, and they have certainly seen men and nations do many evil and wretched things.

But the history of the world is all one long romance--a tremendous story." "That is what makes me sorry to go home," said Shirley meditatively.