n between Angelico and Roger
van der Weyden, though they lived at the same time. Still, the monk
seems to me the more trustworthy authority."

"For my part," said the Abbe Gevresin, "I cannot but think of the right
side of the lining of which you were speaking just now."

"This rule of contraries is not peculiar to the ritual of colour; it is
to be seen in almost every part of the science of symbolism. Look at
the emblems derived from the animal world; the eagle alternately
figuring Christ and the Devil; the snake which, while it is one of the
most familiar symbols of the Demon, may nevertheless, as in the brazen
serpent of Moses, prefigure the Saviour."

"The anticipatory symbol of Christian symbolism was the double-faced
Janus of the heathen world," said the Abbe Plomb, laughing.

"Indeed, these allegories of the palette turn completely to the
right-about," said Durtal. "Take red, for instance: we have seen that in
the general acceptation it is to be interpreted as meaning charity,
endurance, and love. This is the right side out; the wrong side,
according to Sister Emmerich, is dulness, and clinging to this world's
goods.

"Grey, the emblem of repentance and sorrow, and at the same time the
image of a lukewarm soul, is also, according to another interpretation,
symbolical of the Resurrection--white, piercing through blackness--light
entering into the Tomb and coming out as a new hue--grey, a mixed colour
still heavy with the gloom of death, but reviving as it gets light by
degrees from the whiteness of day.

"Green, to which the mystics gave favourable meanings, also acquires a
disastrous sense in some cases; it then represents moral degradation and
despair; it borrows melancholy significance from dead leaves, is the
colour given to the bodies of the devils in Stephan Lochner's Last
Judgment, and in the infernal scenes depicted in the glass windows and
pictures of the earliest artists.

"Black and brown, with their inimical suggestions of death and hell,
change their meaning as soon as the founders of religious Orders adopt
them for the garb of the cloister. Black then symbolizes renunciation,
repentance, the mortification of the flesh, according to Durand de
Mende; and brown and even grey suggest poverty and humility.

"Yellow again, so misprized in the formulas of symbolism, becomes
significant of charity; and if we accept the teaching of the English
monk who wrote in about 1220, yellow is enhanced when it