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Beyond Skole we left the mountains looking back at that imposing wall on the horizon, one could fancy the Russians coming down from the north and thinking, "There we shall stand!" and rode northward through a pleasant, shallow, valley country, past Ruthenian settlements with their three-domed churches and houses steep-roofed with heavy thatch.
The approach is by a score and more of stone steps and through enormous bronze doors on which the Ten Commandments are illustrated. Entering the Madeleine, one sees an interior richly adorned, floors of marble, and lofty columns supporting a three-domed roof, through which light enters. On either side are six confessionals of oak and gilt, where prince and peasant alike confess their sins.
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