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Excerpt from The Crucifix of Baden: And Other Stories, Original, Translated, and Selected When you have long studied those features and contemplated their agony, you involuntarily ask yourself Where did the sculptor find so sufi'ering a face, so living an agony? Whence came his model? For you feel that features once were the flesh of one to whom ordinary grief were as nothing. That look of life, that pain so real, came certainly from a human heart that once beat beneath them, and in them painted its wounds, its tortures. And its agony. They were seen, and not merely created in the artist's brain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.