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The March Family Trilogy

PART III
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But they had become rococo, too! Look at that row of their statues on both sides of the nave! What magnificent swell! How they abash this poor plain Christ, here; he would like to get behind the pillar; he knows that he could never lend himself to the baroque style.

It expresses the eighteenth century, though.
But how you long for some little hint of the thirteenth, or even the nineteenth." "I don't," she whispered back.

"I'm perfectly wild with Wurzburg.

I like to have a thing go as far as it can.

At Nuremberg I wanted all the Gothic I could get, and in Wurzburg I want all the baroque I can get.


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