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Updated: May 16, 2025
In the narrow thoroughfare connecting Victoria Street with that in which Thessaly's flat was situated were a number of curious shops devoted to the sale of church ornaments, altar candlesticks, lecterns, silk banners, cassocks and birettas, statuettes of the Virgin, crucifixes and rosaries.
He had, for instance, flung two ikons belonging to his landlady out of his lodgings and smashed up one of them with an axe; in his own room he had, on three stands resembling lecterns, laid out the works of Vogt, Moleschott, and Buchner, and before each lectern he used to burn a church wax-candle. From the number of books found in his rooms it could be gathered that he was a well-read man.
Everything is of perfect finish the mahogany-railed gallery the tiny ladders the broad-winged lecterns, with leathern cushions on the edges to keep the wood from grazing the rich bindings the books themselves, each shelf uniform with its facings or rather backings, like well-dressed lines at a review.
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