For instance, you will never see Rheims--as it was.

I have spent months at Rheims in old days, drawing and photographing.

I must show you my things.

They have a tragic value now.' And taking out a portfolio from a rack near him, he opened it and put it on a stand before her.
Nelly, who had in her the real instincts of the artist, turned over some very masterly drawings, in mingled delight and despair.
'If I could only do something like that!' she said, pointing to a study of some of the famous windows at Rheims, with vague forms of saint and king emerging from a conflagration of colour, kindled by the afternoon sun, and dyeing the pavement below.
'Ah, that took me some time.

It was difficult.