International studio . ottoir, anxiously awaiting our return, forthe ruined streets are deserted and an eerie,intangible sort of ghostliness begins to broodabout the place. .A strange fantastic horror. In the morning light Reims is another revela-tion. The Cathedral, whose interior arch isperhaps the most splendid architectural line inexistence, and whose twin towers still rise abovethe town like guardian sentinels over above thepoor broken walls. The walls of Pompeii are red,black and white, and the splendid frescoes stillsmile in the sun, but beneath the great severegray mass of the Cathedra
International studio . ottoir, anxiously awaiting our return, forthe ruined streets are deserted and an eerie,intangible sort of ghostliness begins to broodabout the place. .A strange fantastic horror. In the morning light Reims is another revela-tion. The Cathedral, whose interior arch isperhaps the most splendid architectural line inexistence, and whose twin towers still rise abovethe town like guardian sentinels over above thepoor broken walls. The walls of Pompeii are red,black and white, and the splendid frescoes stillsmile in the sun, but beneath the great severegray mass of the Cathedral the walls of Reimsare of a thousand broken tones of gray, pearl,pale rose, citron, ashen blue, a new colour scaleof such pale blondness excessively French andso delicately triste that one must almost needsbe a Chopin in order to interpret colour tonesof such blonde melancholy as the rose pastel,of what remains of the Gothic cloister of theancient convent of the Cordelliers, whose / iL : i * 5 -Tl » * i ft * fl) ;^v^. n^>^ / / V 4 vV^ AliOVF,: THE MARKET PLACE REIMS. BELOW: CONVENT OF 111
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