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This Being has not the notes of degeneration; his home is 'among the stars, not in a hill or in a house. To him no altar smokes, and for him no blood is shed.
On one side glittered a "small but tastefully decorated altar," while scattered around were the many relics which have since drifted to Camberwell. The writing of the Life August 1892-March 1893. In this loft Lady Burton spent many hours examining her husband's papers, and in the autumn of 1902 she commenced in earnest to write his life a work that occupied her about eight months.
She walked up to the altar and took the blessed book of the Gospels from the left side of it, then knelt in prayer for a moment or two, while the three men stood behind her reverently.
Arrived at their places they sink down on their knees, and, moist-eyed and full of feeling, cast a look of veiled adoration toward the high altar, then hide their faces with their gloved hands.
Some are strange, Chinese-looking dragons, and some show odd-looking figures or mitred saints. The panel showing Harold taking the oath is modern. At a shrine dedicated to John the Baptist, the altar bears a painting in the centre showing the saint's dripping head resting in the charger.
His words had signified that Somerset was here. It was a gloomy place enough that she found herself in, but the seven candles below on the opposite altar, and a faint sky light from the clerestory, lent enough rays to guide her. Paula walked on to the bend of the apse: here were a few chairs, and the origin of the light.
She had said when she recovered consciousness and found herself on the island, and the boatman gone: "I will never utter another word from this hour until I am set free again. You are beneath contempt, Captain Frazier, to kidnap a young girl at the altar." He never forgot how she looked at him in the clear moonlight as he turned to her, crying out passionately: "It is your own fault, Gerelda.
Soft carpets of the Orient were spread upon the steps of the altar. How pretty it all seemed as we turned to leave the place and saw everything dimly in the blue vapor that still sweetened and hallowed it!
The wretched men gave themselves up, at length, to counting the minutes till the service should be over, and they should be once more retired from this myriad of eyes, when they were roused by a singular suspension of the service. After the prayer for divine pardon, ensuing upon mutual forgiveness, L'Ouverture arose from his knees, stepped from his place, and stood before the altar.
"Come, my Vagres," said Ronan; "come, day is dawning. Let us pack our booty on the bishop's wagons, and on the march! What a fine day will this be for the folks of this neighborhood!" And stepping towards the little slave girl, who, seated on the steps of the altar had quietly watched and listened to all that took place: "Poor child, you are without father or mother, will you come with us?
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