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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 680

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 680 — ourfeet on the grass; there is no longer a shelterthere, even for a fugitive king. You wanderabout viewing it scarcely more than as a ruin, at first, a place for painting, for seclusion, fordreaming in the sun. Then all at once you arefacing a wall in which, half-way up, where oncewas the second… … JOAN. HURRYING TO THE RIGHTFUL CHARLES, DROPPED ON HER KNEE You cross a stone foot-bridge to the towerwhere Joan lived, and that too is open to the skyand bare and desolate. Once, beyond it, therewas a little chapel where she prayed, but that isgone. There are other fragments and other tow-ers, but…

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