96 A DOG OF FLANDERS.

man is portrayed in the Family in
the chapel of St. Jacques; and of
how he would hang the throat of
Patrasche with a collar of gold, and
place him on his right hand, and say
to the people, “This was once my
only friend;” and of how he would
build himself a great white marble
palace, and maketo himself luxuriant
gardens of pleasure on the slope
looking outward to where the cathe-
dral spire rose, and not dwell in it
himself, but summon to it, as to a
home, all men young and poor and
friendless, but of the will to do mighty
things; and of how he would say to
them always, if they sought to bless
his name, “Nay, do not thank me— .
thank Rubens. Without him, what