58 A DOG OF FLANDERS.

alone will the future know of you.
Flanders in her generations has been
wise. In his life she glorified this
greatest of her sons, and in his death
she magnifies his name. But her
wisdom is very rare.

Now the trouble of Patrasche was
this. Into these great, sad piles of
stones, that reared their melancholy
majesty above the crowded roofs, the
child Nello would many and many
atime enter, and disappear through
their dark, arched portals, whilst Pa-
trasche, left without upon the pave-
ment, would wearily and vainly pon-
der on what could be the charm
which thus allured from him his
inseparable and beloved companion.
Once or twice he did essay to see