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Troy
entered
Weatherbury
churchyard
about
ten
o
’
clock
and
went
immediately
to
the
corner
where
he
had
marked
the
vacant
grave
early
in
the
morning
.
It
was
on
the
obscure
side
of
the
tower
,
screened
to
a
great
extent
from
the
view
of
passers
along
the
road
—
a
spot
which
until
lately
had
been
abandoned
to
heaps
of
stones
and
bushes
of
alder
,
but
now
it
was
cleared
and
made
orderly
for
interments
,
by
reason
of
the
rapid
filling
of
the
ground
elsewhere
.
Here
now
stood
the
tomb
as
the
men
had
stated
,
snow
-
white
and
shapely
in
the
gloom
,
consisting
of
head
and
foot
-
stone
,
and
enclosing
border
of
marble
-
work
uniting
them
.
In
the
midst
was
mould
,
suitable
for
plants
.
Troy
deposited
his
basket
beside
the
tomb
,
and
vanished
for
a
few
minutes
.
When
he
returned
he
carried
a
spade
and
a
lantern
,
the
light
of
which
he
directed
for
a
few
moments
upon
the
marble
,
whilst
he
read
the
inscription
.
He
hung
his
lantern
on
the
lowest
bough
of
the
yew
-
tree
,
and
took
from
his
basket
flower
-
roots
of
several
varieties
.
There
were
bundles
of
snow
-
drop
,
hyacinth
and
crocus
bulbs
,
violets
and
double
daisies
,
which
were
to
bloom
in
early
spring
,
and
of
carnations
,
pinks
,
picotees
,
lilies
of
the
valley
,
forget
-
me
-
not
,
summer
’
s
farewell
,
meadow
-
saffron
and
others
,
for
the
later
seasons
of
the
year
.
Troy
laid
these
out
upon
the
grass
,
and
with
an
impassive
face
set
to
work
to
plant
them
.
The
snowdrops
were
arranged
in
a
line
on
the
outside
of
the
coping
,
the
remainder
within
the
enclosure
of
the
grave
.
The
crocuses
and
hyacinths
were
to
grow
in
rows
;
some
of
the
summer
flowers
he
placed
over
her
head
and
feet
,
the
lilies
and
forget
-
me
-
nots
over
her
heart
.
The
remainder
were
dispersed
in
the
spaces
between
these
Troy
,
in
his
prostration
at
this
time
,
had
no
perception
that
in
the
futility
of
these
romantic
doings
,
dictated
by
a
remorseful
reaction
from
previous
indifference
,
there
was
any
element
of
absurdity
.
Deriving
his
idiosyncrasies
from
both
sides
of
the
Channel
,
he
showed
at
such
junctures
as
the
present
the
inelasticity
of
the
Englishman
,
together
with
that
blindness
to
the
line
where
sentiment
verges
on
mawkishness
,
characteristic
of
the
French
.
It
was
a
cloudy
,
muggy
,
and
very
dark
night
,
and
the
rays
from
Troy
’
s
lantern
spread
into
the
two
old
yews
with
a
strange
illuminating
power
,
flickering
,
as
it
seemed
,
up
to
the
black
ceiling
of
cloud
above
.
He
felt
a
large
drop
of
rain
upon
the
back
of
his
hand
,
and
presently
one
came
and
entered
one
of
the
holes
of
the
lantern
,
whereupon
the
candle
sputtered
and
went
out
.
Troy
was
weary
and
it
being
now
not
far
from
midnight
,
and
the
rain
threatening
to
increase
,
he
resolved
to
leave
the
finishing
touches
of
his
labour
until
the
day
should
break
.
He
groped
along
the
wall
and
over
the
graves
in
the
dark
till
he
found
himself
round
at
the
north
side
.
Here
he
entered
the
porch
,
and
,
reclining
upon
the
bench
within
,
fell
asleep
.
The
tower
of
Weatherbury
Church
was
a
square
erection
of
fourteenth
-
century
date
,
having
two
stone
gurgoyles
on
each
of
the
four
faces
of
its
parapet
.
Of
these
eight
carved
protuberances
only
two
at
this
time
continued
to
serve
the
purpose
of
their
erection
—
that
of
spouting
the
water
from
the
lead
roof
within
.
One
mouth
in
each
front
had
been
closed
by
bygone
church
-
wardens
as
superfluous
,
and
two
others
were
broken
away
and
choked
—
a
matter
not
of
much
consequence
to
the
wellbeing
of
the
tower
,
for
the
two
mouths
which
still
remained
open
and
active
were
gaping
enough
to
do
all
the
work
.
It
has
been
sometimes
argued
that
there
is
no
truer
criterion
of
the
vitality
of
any
given
art
-
period
than
the
power
of
the
master
-
spirits
of
that
time
in
grotesque
;
and
certainly
in
the
instance
of
Gothic
art
there
is
no
disputing
the
proposition
.
Weatherbury
tower
was
a
somewhat
early
instance
of
the
use
of
an
ornamental
parapet
in
parish
as
distinct
from
cathedral
churches
,
and
the
gurgoyles
,
which
are
the
necessary
correlatives
of
a
parapet
,
were
exceptionally
prominent
—
of
the
boldest
cut
that
the
hand
could
shape
,
and
of
the
most
original
design
that
a
human
brain
could
conceive
.
There
was
,
so
to
speak
,
that
symmetry
in
their
distortion
which
is
less
the
characteristic
of
British
than
of
Continental
grotesques
of
the
period
.
All
the
eight
were
different
from
each
other
.
A
beholder
was
convinced
that
nothing
on
earth
could
be
more
hideous
than
those
he
saw
on
the
north
side
until
he
went
round
to
the
south
.
Of
the
two
on
this
latter
face
,
only
that
at
the
south
-
eastern
corner
concerns
the
story
.
It
was
too
human
to
be
called
like
a
dragon
,
too
impish
to
be
like
a
man
,
too
animal
to
be
like
a
fiend
,
and
not
enough
like
a
bird
to
be
called
a
griffin
.
This
horrible
stone
entity
was
fashioned
as
if
covered
with
a
wrinkled
hide
;
it
had
short
,
erect
ears
,
eyes
starting
from
their
sockets
,
and
its
fingers
and
hands
were
seizing
the
corners
of
its
mouth
,
which
they
thus
seemed
to
pull
open
to
give
free
passage
to
the
water
it
vomited
.
The
lower
row
of
teeth
was
quite
washed
away
,
though
the
upper
still
remained
.
Here
and
thus
,
jutting
a
couple
of
feet
from
the
wall
against
which
its
feet
rested
as
a
support
,
the
creature
had
for
four
hundred
years
laughed
at
the
surrounding
landscape
,
voicelessly
in
dry
weather
,
and
in
wet
with
a
gurgling
and
snorting
sound
.
