Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
30 Sep, 2019
Brief Extract: The aspect of the old French town was very different from anything English; whiter, infinitely cleaner; higher and narrower houses, the entrance to most of which seeming to be through a great gateway, affording admission into a central
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Brief Extract: The aspect of the old French town was very different from anything English; whiter, infinitely cleaner; higher and narrower houses, the entrance to most of which seeming to be through a great gateway, affording admission into a central court-yard; a public square, with a statue in the middle, and another statue in a neighboring street. Less