[The Gilded Age Part 3. by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner]@TWC D-Link bookThe Gilded Age Part 3. CHAPTER XXIV 5/15
Which is not the case.
Nobody knows what is the matter with him; but everybody feels for him.
Well, you ought not to go into the dome anyhow, because it would be utterly impossible to go up there without seeing the frescoes in it--and why should you be interested in the delirium tremens of art? The capitol is a very noble and a very beautiful building, both within and without, but you need not examine it now.
Still, if you greatly prefer going into the dome, go.
Now your general glance gives you picturesque stretches of gleaming water, on your left, with a sail here and there and a lunatic asylum on shore; over beyond the water, on a distant elevation, you see a squat yellow temple which your eye dwells upon lovingly through a blur of unmanly moisture, for it recalls your lost boyhood and the Parthenons done in molasses candy which made it blest and beautiful.
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