In the cloisters--Sacred geese--Bishop's palace--House of the Inquisition--Striking quadrangles--_Ajimez_ windows--A rare cloister--Desecration--Library--Rare MSS.--Polite librarian--Romantic atmosphere--Santa Maria del Mar--Cloisters of Santa Anna--Sister of Mercy--San Pablo del Campo--More dream cloisters--Communing with ghosts and shadows--Spring and winter--Constant visitor--Centenarian--Chief architect--Cathedrals of Catalonia--Barbarous town-council--Hard fight and victory--Failing vision--Emblems of death--Laid aside--Wholesome lessons--Placing the keystone--_Finis_--_Resurgam_--Charmed hour--Possessing the soul in patience--City of Refuge 203
Early rising--Imp of darkness--Death warrant--The men who fail--Ranges of Montserrat--Sabadell--Labour and romance--The Llobregat--Monistrol--Summer resort--Sleeping village--Empty letter-bags--Ascending--Splendid view--Romantic element--Charms of antiquity--Human interests--Mons Serratus--A man of letters--_Solitude à deux_--Fellow-travellers--Substantial lady-merchant--Resignation--Military policeman--"Nameless here for evermore"--Round man in square hole--Romantic history--_Cherchez la femme_--Woman a divinity--Good name the best inheritance--No fighting against the stars--Fascinations of astrology--Love and fortune--Too good to last--Taste for pleasure--Ruin--Sad end--Truth reasserts itself--Fortune smiles again--Ceylon--Philosophical in misfortune--A windfall--Approaching Montserrat--Paradise of the monks--Romance and beauty--New order of things--Gipsy encampment 214
Monk's face--Superfluous virtue--"Welcome to Montserrat"--Mean advantage--Exacting but not mercenary--Another Miguel--Missing keys--Singular monk--Hospederia--Uncertainty--Monk's idea of luxury--Rare prospect--Haunted by silence--Father Salvador privileged--Monk sees ghosts--Under Miguel's escort--In the church--Departed glory--The black image--Gothic and Norman outlines--Franciscan monk or ghost?--Vision of the past--Days of persecution--Sensible image--Great community--Harmony of the spheres--Sad cypresses--Life of a hermit--Monk's story--Loving the world--Penitence--Plucked from the burning--Talent developed--A world apart--False interest--Salvador--Temptation and a compromise--Salvador extemporises--"All the magic of the hour"--Salvador's belief--Waiting for manifestations. 227