pipe-clouds

Updated: May 13, 2025

There, at his own street door, under the trees lining the canal-bank, his landlord, Van der Spijck, the painter usually a phlegmatic figure haloed in pipe-clouds congratulated him excitedly on his safe return, but refused him entry to the house. "Here thou canst lodge no more." "Here I lodge to-night," said Spinoza quietly, "if there be any law in Holland." "Law!

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