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Letter , Quincey P . Morris to Hon . Arthur Holmwood . “ 25 May . “ My dear Art , — “ We’ve told yarns by the camp - fire in the prairies ; and dressed one another’s wounds after trying a landing at the Marquesas ; and drunk healths on the shore of Titicaca . There are more yarns to be told , and other wounds to be healed , and another health to be drunk . Won’t you let this be at my camp - fire to - morrow night ? I have no hesitation in asking you , as I know a certain lady is engaged to a certain dinner - party , and that you are free . There will only be one other , our old pal at the Korea , Jack Seward . He’s coming , too , and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine - cup , and to drink a health with all our hearts to the happiest man in all the wide world , who has won the noblest heart that God has made and the best worth winning . We promise you a hearty welcome , and a loving greeting , and a health as true as your own right hand . We shall both swear to leave you at home if you drink too deep to a certain pair of eyes . Come ! “ Yours , as ever and always , “ Quincey P . Morris . ” Telegram from Arthur Holmwood to Quincey P . Morris . “ 26 May . “ Count me in every time . I bear messages which will make both your ears tingle . “ Art . ” CHAPTER VI MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL 24 July . Whitby . — Lucy met me at the station , looking sweeter and lovelier than ever , and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms . This is a lovely place . The little river , the Esk , runs through a deep valley , which broadens out as it comes near the harbour . A great viaduct runs across , with high piers , through which the view seems somehow further away than it really is . The valley is beautifully green , and it is so steep that when you are on the high land on either side you look right across it , unless you are near enough to see down . The houses of the old town — the side away from us — are all red - roofed , and seem piled up one over the other anyhow , like the pictures we see of Nuremberg . Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey , which was sacked by the Danes , and which is the scene of part of “ Marmion , ” where the girl was built up in the wall . It is a most noble ruin , of immense size , and full of beautiful and romantic bits ; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows . Between it and the town there is another church , the parish one , round which is a big graveyard , all full of tombstones .
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