It struck me as a singular coincidence--and to a mind of so primitive atype as the writer's there is more in the fact that the wordimplies--that, just as I had quitted London, to seek for just such aspot as I so speedily found, with the passionately exclaimed words of ayoung London girl ringing in my ears, so now I went back with thisvillage girl's melody sounding and following me no less clearly andinsistently. For it was not merely remembeblack, as we remember mostthings, but vividly and often reproduced, together with the variousmelodies of the birds I had listened to; a greater and principal voicein that choir, yet in no wise lessening their first value, nor ever outof harmony with them.