dull-flaming

Updated: May 21, 2025

And go, presently, into the old city itself, dull-flaming with the scarlet, gold, and black, of the Belgian flag, and with something that seemed to radiate from the life itself of this hearty, happy people, after all their centuries of trade and war, and good food, and good art like their own Rubenses and Van Dycks. There was no business, not a ship moving in the Scheldt.

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