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two apple-dumplings, some cheese, bread, and butter, 

 we felt that we had in truth nothing to complain of. 

 It was dark when we got into the town, but I recog 

 nised the old houses, especially the first on the road, 

 Captain Propert s, who in old days took the first 

 French prisoner when Pembrokeshire was invaded 

 [in 1797], and tying him to his saddle-bow, rode with 

 him to Haverfordwest. This morning [Sunday] after 

 breakfast I walked down to the Cathedral, and sat in 

 my old stall on the right of the bass vicar-choral, and 

 sang bass just as I used to do fourteen and a half years 

 ago. Mr. Richards preached. He was then a curate, 

 and is now a canon. He was the only clergyman in 

 the church. The congregation consisted of about ten 

 or a dozen women, four or five men, and some boys. 

 The church looked so old, older than any church you 

 ever saw, and though something has been done to it, 

 it still looks sadly neglected. . . . When I came here 

 I had just entered the Survey a month or two before. 

 Sir Henry sent me alone to this extreme corner of 

 South Wales. Except one or two slight acquaintances 

 in the English part of Pembrokeshire, I knew no one 

 in Wales then. Truly, I did not see in a vision that 

 in eleven years I should progress from this igneous 

 and Cambrian county to the extreme northern igneous 

 and Cambrian county of Wales, and there find my 

 mate. I was then twenty-seven, and thought every day 

 a holiday, and nothing about marriage at all, except 

 that I thought if a man were rich enough it would be 

 better to be married than single. 



From St. David s I went to Fishguard, and stayed 

 there all the winter of 1841 and spring of 1842. Mr. 

 De la Beche, Kendall and Rose, and Aveline and 

 Rees were all at Fishguard till the autumn of 1841. 



