Gheel : the city of the simple.

  • Byrne, Wm. Pitt, Mrs., 1819-1894.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Gheel : the city of the simple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN EXPLANATION. showed me the apologue had been understood, and the younger of the three travellers, taking up his parable, replied: Since you are a stranger in these parts, I will tell you with pleasure all I know about Gheel; for to be quite sincere, although I haA^e often passed nearer to it than even this town, I have never visited the place myself. Nor L Nor L Nor I, said the three voices almost in chorus; and the chimes joined in once more. I felt pretty sure iliey could not have made the trip, and I could not help thinking, Well, upon my word, I am not so far behind them, after all. But then, you see, said the first speaker, apolo- getically, as if he read my thoughts, we Flemings are such stay-at-homes. I know it, said I; my good friend Hendrik Conscience told me, only the other day, in a tone of triumph, that he had never been twenty miles from the place of his \mihr—]ie who ought to go and collect ideas