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partly by their striking contrast in character,-not to speak of the military
atmosphere by which you feel yourself ‘surrounded, which somehow serves to
complete the peace and to accent the harmony.-Then passing from the - faint shadow of war into the holy ground occupied by stately churches and
church halls, where the memory of past conff icts and present estrangements
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operates not here-as an element of disturbance to your feelings.-Thence
penetrating a section of the genuine ‘Atild Reekie,’ with its memories of the
Lawnmarket, the West Bow, and the Heart of Midlothian, and the house
once occupied by John Knox,’-its bulky buildings, endless stories, and dark,
steep, descending closes like the circles of Dante, but which remind us onIy
1 See. in theaccompanying illustration, the roomin which he died. with apeepof hisbedroom,
while at the side-door stands a portion of the official staff of Cardinal Beaton, and the skull on
the table is one of the three casts from the head of Robert the Brtia.
