"Perhaps you would just as lief take the aisle seat?" said the girl, surveying Betty as a princess might gaze upon an annoying little page.

This church appears to have stood till the fourteenth century, when it was entirely rebuilt and reclaimed, and all the lower part of the present church built, to be heightened and lengthened at the end of the fifteenth century when the clerestory and the chancel arcade were built, a new aisle wall set up on the north and the south aisle raised, the rood loft built or rebuilt.

The ribbon girls had accompanied the procession at the proper intervals holding the aisle ribbon, and the last two brought up the rear, winding up the ribbon as they came.

The responds of the aisle arches are curiously banded.

"And when thy heart is resting Beneath the church-aisle stone, I shall have time for mourning, And thou for being alone.

The aisle windows are narrow and placed high in the wall.

In vain she waits, and looks around, Still vainer are her cries; With shrieks the sacred aisles resound; Save echo, naught replies: Fell grief her throbbing heart enthrals, Her lips grow ghastly pale; She weepsshe faintsand senseless falls Before the altar-rail!