The marble hall
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

The marble hall

Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · 1919

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

"Wares der train go frum?” he asks and as he stops bewildered at the portal, never a “please” never a “thank you” when I sometimes tell him. We have no time to be polite any more, we are not even taught to be. But overpowered by the marble and the murals he overlooks the door which leads to the Hall of Iron." J[oseph] P[ennell].

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