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* -LSB- * `` Aus der Gesellschaft , '' by the Countess Hahn-Hahn . -RSB- Such was the enjoyment in which I hoped Mrs. Hatton found ample compensation for my silence . She was no doubt a genuine traveller ; for she must have been genuine in every character she assumed ; though I fear that her notion of the happiness of not talking , and of looking about her , would have fallen short of the German countess 's ideal of a traveller 's bliss . After a journey of about eighty miles , at five o'clock in the evening we reached the town of Salisbury , where we were to sleep that night . We ordered dinner at the inn , and I then walked to the cathedral . I had never seen one before ; and when I came in sight of its tower , and then of the whole of its beautiful structure , tears rushed into my eyes , and I stood entranced in contemplation before it . My hands involuntarily clasped themselves as in prayer , and I longed to fall on my knees and adore there the God who had given to man 's heart to desire , to his mind to conceive , and to his hand the power of raising , such shrines for His worship .