I heard the Mass and after that he examined me a little--asked me to read out of the _Following of Christ_ in Latin, which I did.

He gave me my acceptance, and I rushed back to New York by the half-past eight o'clock morning train.

George had packed my trunk, and I sailed that day with the others." The picturesqueness of the group was certainly not lessened by the accession of Isaac Hecker, whose leap to and from Baltimore, though hardly to be expected from a contemplative, was in accord with the sudden energy of his nature.

One who saw him at the time says that "he had the general make-up of a transcendentalist, not excepting his long hair flowing down on his neck." The ship was an American one named the _Argo,_ and she was bound for London.

The voyage was every way pleasant, lasting but twenty-five days from land to land, with bright skies, quiet sea, and fair winds.
Their berths were in the waist of the ship, in the second cabin, all the places in the first cabin having been taken; this pleased them well, for they loved the poor man's lot.