396 A Walk from 



the coronet she wore a lustre brighter to the American 

 eye than the light of diadems which have dazzled 

 millions in Europe. When the Fatherhood of God 

 and the Brotherhood of Men shall come to its high 

 place in the hearts of nations as the crown-faith of all 

 their creeds, what this noble woman felt, said and did 

 for the Slave in his bonds shall be mentioned of her 

 by the preachers of that great doctrine in years to 

 come. When the jewels of Humanity's memories shall 

 be made up, she who, as it were, bent down to him in 

 his prison-house and put her jewelled hands to the 

 breaking of his fetters, shall stand, with women of the 

 same sympathy, only next to her who broke her box 

 of ointment on the Saviour's feet. 



The next day made a walk to Helmsdale, a distance 

 of about eighteen miles. The weather was favorable, 

 the scenery grand and varied with almost every feature 

 that could give it interest. The finest of roads wound 

 in and out around the mountain headlands, so that 

 alternately I was walking upon a lofty esplanade 

 overlooking the still expanse of the steel-blue sea, 

 then facing inward to the gorges of the grand and 

 solemn hills. Found comfortable quarters in one of 

 the inns of Helmsdale, a vigorous, busy, fishing village 

 nestling under the shadow of the mountains at the 

 mouth of a little river of the same name. After tea, 



