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Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders (1916)

Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950 · Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company · leaf 104

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oredover the exquisite Gothic detail, all unmindful of thepassing time, when all at once I became conscious that asmall green door beside the right hand low retable wasmoving outward. I ceased working and watched it; thenthe solitary candle before the statue of the Virgin gut-tered and flared up;… … DIXMUDE noiselessly; the old man slowly opened the gate beforethe altar and came down the step toward me. Withouta word he walked behind my chair and peered over myshoulder at the drawing I was making of the greatJube. He tapped the floor with his staff, placed it under hisarm, sought his pocket…

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