Welshmen, whether sensitive or not to the
rhythmic expression of the English language, are almost all, I
believe, of the poetic temperament.
But from this moment my mind began to run upon the picture of Fenella
Stanley, surrounded by those Snowdonian spirits which her music was
supposed to have evoked from the mountain air of the morning.
XIII
THE MAGIC OF SNOWDON
I
In a few days I left London and went to North Wales.
Opposite to me in the railway carriage sat an elderly lady, into
whose face I occasionally felt myself to be staring in an unconscious
way. But I was merely communing with myself: I was saying to myself,
'My love of North Wales, and especially of Snowdon, is certainly very
strong; but it is easily accounted for--it is a matter of
temperament. Even had Wales not been associated with Winnie, I still
must have dearly loved it. Much has been said about the effect of
scenery upon the minds and temperaments of those who are native to
it. But temperament is a matter of ancestral conditions: the place of
one's birth is an accident.
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