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Title: The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Hazelton, George Cochrane, 1868-1921
Subjects: United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: New York (Press of J. J. Little & co)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r. JohnP. Newman, Chaplain Butler of the Senate, Bishop Andrews and Rev. Dr.Tiffany were the officiating clergymen. The ceremony was impressive.Fragrant flowers with endearing mottoes, the contribution of friends andcomrades throughout the country, occupied all the available space around thecasket. Rev. Dr. Newman preached an eloquent funeral sermon. Midnight in the Rotunda.—At midnight in the rotunda, the step ofthe traverser grows stealthy, and he speaks in whispers. The historic walls,which so oft have looked upon the dead, answer step and voice in hollowaccents until the belated visitor finds himself looking fearfully for somedemon—some spirit—to leap up in his path, or drop leopard-like from above.Behind each arch lurks, then, the Quasimodo of the Capitol. Can the spiritwhich Victor Hugo conjured up for Notre-Dame have sought refuge amongthe secret passages of the dome ? Is Quasimodo alive; and does he nowunsuspected lurk in and defend the mighty precincts of the Capitol as
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< < X THE NEW Y - The National Capitol 133 he once hovered about and defended Notre-Dame ? Who knows ? Whoknows ? Egypt would have taken him for a God of this temple; the Middle Ages believedhim to be its demon ; he was in fact its soul. So much was this the case that to those whoknow that Quasimodo has existed, Notre-Dame is now solitary, inanimate, dead. Theyfeel that something has disappeared. That vast body is empty—it is a skeleton—the spirithas quitted it—they see the place thereof, but that is all. It is like a skull, which still hasholes for the eyes, but no eyesight. THE CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY z£&.

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