48 FLORIDA DAYS.

which makes you start. ... .Gallantry requires
no other mode to express its most subtle con-
ceits or its most unreasonable demands than
this delicate machine."
 So it would appear, then, that Sceur Marie
 may have had need of repentance; but fifty
 years is a long time!

 The old Cathedral on the Plaza, where very
 likely the breath of a fan has blown the sermon
 from a man's memory a hundred times, was
 burned not long ago, but the new one has re-
 produced it with a tender fidelity to the past.
 It, too, faces the Plaza and the old market, and
 the monument that the Spaniards raised just
 before they took their departure from the town.
 The morning light strikes it fresh and clear
 from across the live-oak trees in the square, and
 through the palmetto leaves in the garden op-
 posite it. The old bell which the flames spared,
 hangs in the new belfry. Sancte," its inscrip-
 tion runs, -" Sancte Joseph, ora pro nobis.
 D. 1682." It was brought from some Spanish
city nearly a century ago, when the old Cathe-