A DOG OF FLANDERS. 61

for himself, clattering up the steps
with his milk-cart, behind him;
but thereon he had been always
sent back again summarily by a tall
custodian in black clothes and silver
chains of office ; and fearful of bring-
ing his little master into trouble, he
desisted, and remained couched pa-
tiently before the churches until such
time as the boy reappeared. It was
not the fact of his going into them
which disturbed Patrasche: he knew
that people went to church: all the
village went to the small, tumble-
down, gray pile opposite the red wind-
mill. What troubled him was that
little Nello always looked strangely
when he came out, always very flushed
or very pale; and whenever he re-