title: Pleasures and Landscapes: A Traveller's Tales From Europe
author:  Sybille Bedford 
description: <div>Sybille Bedford was born in 1911, in Charlottenburg, Germany, and was brought up in Italy, England, and France. in 1953, she made her literary debut with A Visit to Don Otavio, and has since published eight other books - including Jigsaw, A Legacy, A Favourite of the Gods, and A Compass Error, as well as classic accounts of criminal trials and other courtroom cases, and an acclaimed biography of her mentor Aldous Huxley. She was vice president of English PEN and one of Britain's nine Companions of Literature. Ms. Bedford lived in London where she passed away in February 2006.</div>
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  A Passionate Pilgrim
  
  
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  # A Passionate Pilgrim
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
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  ### I
  
  
  Intending to sail for America in the early part of June, I
  
  
  determined to spend the interval of six weeks in England, to which
  
  
  country my mind's eye only had as yet been introduced. I had formed in
  
  
  Italy and France a resolute preference for old inns, considering that
  
  
  what they sometimes cost the ungratified body they repay the delighted
  
  
  mind. On my arrival in London, therefore, I lodged at a certain antique
  
  
  hostelry, much to the east of Temple Bar, deep in the quarter that I
  
  
  had inevitably figured as the Johnsonian. Here, on the first evening of
  
  
  my stay, I descended to the little coffee-room and bespoke my dinner of
  
  
  the genius of “at