. Little journeys abroad . in 1496,rewarded one for the rough climbing andthe pushing through narrow doorways andcorridors. Leaving the graceful creationsof foliage, sprigs, flowers, and garlands,executed with wonderful variety of designon the spandrils of the arches of the clois-ters, we came out on a grass-grown space inthe open air, where I suppose the monksused to take their exercise. One of thetourists — a Frenchman who had evidentlybeen bored by the guides anecdotes, andhad tried to frighten the ladies of his partyin the prisons — here sang and laughed atescaping from the dreary interior
. Little journeys abroad . in 1496,rewarded one for the rough climbing andthe pushing through narrow doorways andcorridors. Leaving the graceful creationsof foliage, sprigs, flowers, and garlands,executed with wonderful variety of designon the spandrils of the arches of the clois-ters, we came out on a grass-grown space inthe open air, where I suppose the monksused to take their exercise. One of thetourists — a Frenchman who had evidentlybeen bored by the guides anecdotes, andhad tried to frighten the ladies of his partyin the prisons — here sang and laughed atescaping from the dreary interior, andeven indulged in mild badinage with the MONT ST. MICHEL. 35 guide who had just described to us thesemi-Romanesque, semi-Gothic carvingsof Scriptural subjects in the church. A wondrous pile, both craggy rock andcastle church, wondrous in historic as-sociations, grand in natural beauties,stately in the dignity of art, and sacredforever, will it be in the memory of twoAmericans who visited it that day. ■■*&.
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