Excerpt from God the Beautiful: An Artist's Creed
Some explanation is needed that the letters which form this book, and the fascinating personality of their author, may be rightly understood.
Returning from a holiday tour in Denmark, I found myself compelled to pass a night in Leith. I put up at a little hotel, a clean and respectable place kept by a Danish matron, situated near the docks, and mostly frequented by Scandinavian captains.
During the night I was disturbed by hard, distressing coughing, which proceeded from a bedroom adjoining mine. I mentioned this to the Danish landlady at breakfast next morning, and I heard from her a sad story. A young gentleman from Copenhagen was lying there.
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