7/35 They love these beautiful windows. They will not permit them to be destroyed. Will you tell them what you saw ?" It is no pleasure to tell what I saw. Shells had torn out some of the windows, the entire sash, glass, and stone frame--all was gone; only a jagged hole was left. On the floor lay broken carvings, pieces of stone from flying buttresses outside that had been hurled through the embrasures, tangled masses of leaden window-sashes, like twisted coils of barbed wire, and great brass candelabra. |