He seemed to be withdrawing His favours from the east, 'to bestow them on the west.

Hence, if any region is accurst and inhabited by Satan, it is the south and not the north." "You abominate the south and its races, that is evident," said the Abbe, laughing.
"I do not love them.

Their scenery, vulgarized by crude daylight, their dusty trees standing out against a sky of washerwoman's blue, have no charm for me; as to the natives, hairy and noisy, with a blue bar under their nostrils if they shave, I flee from them!" "Here, in short, we are face to face with a fact which no discussions can alter.

This side of the church is dedicated to the Virgin.

Shall we now examine it, first as a whole, and then in detail?
"This portal, brought forward like an open porch, a sort of verandah in front of the doors, is an allegory of the Saviour showing the way into the heavenly Jerusalem.