Explore "Blanche: The Maid of Lille" by Ossip Schubin on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
After long wanderings, the bust has found a resting-place in the museum at Lille. Full of a dreamy pathos, it stands in its glass case -- an atonement for Love betrayed -- in memory of the bitterest repentance.
As the embodiment of an old legend, it interests us and seems to say: "A tear for Blanche of Montalme; for Henri de Lancy -- a prayer!"