Excerpt from Dilemmas: Stories and Studies in Sentiment; The Diary of a Successful Man A Case of Conscience an Orchestral Violin Souvenirs of an Egoist the Statue of Limitations

After all, few places appeal to my imagination more potently than this autumnal old city - the most mediaeval town in Europe. I am glad that I have come back here at last. It is melancholy indeed, but then at my age one's pleasures are chiefly melancholy. One is essentially of the autumn, and it is always autumn at Bruges. I thought I had been given back my youth when I awoke this morning and heard the Carillon, chiming out, as it has done, no doubt, intermittently, since I heard it last - twenty years ago. Yes, for a moment, I thought I was young again - only for a moment. When I went out into the streets and resumed acquaintance with all my old haunts, the illusion had gone.

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