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Hodge and His Masters

CHAPTER XV
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Upon the wall in one place a figure seems at the first glance to be in the act to glide forth like a spectre from the solid stone.

The effect is caused by the subdued colouring, which is shadowy and indistinct.

It was perhaps gaudy when first painted; but when a painting has been hidden by a coat or two of plaster, afterwards as carefully removed as it was carelessly laid on, the tints lose their brilliancy.

Some sainted woman in a flowing robe, with upraised arm, stands ever in the act to bless.

Only half one of the windows of the original hall is in this apartment--the partition wall divides it.


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