The Birdcage by Clive Aslet

Author:Clive Aslet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Published: 2016-06-20T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-five

On the pass through the mountains, the Serb soldiers took Winner to a chapel. The interior was covered in paintings of saints and angels: huge, robed figures, sometimes with wings, invariably with haloes, stood, frozen in solemn gestures, around the upper part of the walls. The lower part of the walls were closely packed with icons in frames, or prints, including Leonardo’s Last Supper. What could be gilded, had been. A sunburst in silver scattered rays above a doorway at the east end of the chapel. Here there hung curtains, concealing the most sacred of images; the importance of others was marked with what Winner took to be lace antimacassars, draped over the top of the frames.

He looked around in delight. As though by involuntary impulse he began to sing:

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