Romantic castles and palaces, as seen and described by famous writers; (1901)
Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 384
tal portion to a daily paper. By all the canons ofromance, the place demands to be half deserted and leaningtowards decay; birds we might admit in profusion, theplay of the sun and winds, and a few gypsies encamped inthe chief thoroughfare : but these citizens, with their cabsand tramways, their… … QA < EhO 11 wJ ■n < ao ;2 I—* QW EDINBURGH CASTLE 297 thronging by, in their neat clothes and conscious moralrectitude, and with a little air of possession that vergeson the absurb, is not the least striking feature of theplace. The Old Town, it Is pretended, is the chief characteristic,and,…
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