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Updated: May 28, 2025
Walden, folding his arms on the altar-rails, hid his face, but the Bishop, clasping his hands and fixing his eyes on the word 'Resurget' that flashed out of the worn alabaster wherein the unknown 'Saint' reposed, seemed to gather to himself all the sunlight that poured through the window above him, and to exhale from his own slight worn frame something like the mystic halo of glory pictured round the figure of an apostle or evangelist.
"It will come right somehow," he thought, and went towards the altar-rails. He went up the steps, and turning to the right saw the priest. The priest, a little old man with a scanty grizzled beard and weary, good-natured eyes, was standing at the altar-rails, turning over the pages of a missal. With a slight bow to Levin he began immediately reading prayers in the official voice.
We marry I wonder how many marriages are the result of a passion that is burnt out before the altar-rails are reached? and three months afterwards the little lass is broken-hearted to find that we consider the lacing of her boots a bore. Her feet seem to have grown bigger.
The demolished Brattle Street Church in Boston was not the only one of our sacred edifices to be wounded by cannonballs, for the exigences of the fight more than once, during the Revolution and the civil war, brought flame and destruction within the altar-rails of churches North and South.
So the new suit had been finally ordered; and Stephen stood arrayed therein before the altar-rails in the gray old church at Crosber, a far more grotesque and outrageous figure to contemplate than any knight templar, or bearded cavalier of the days of the first English James, whose effigies were to be seen in the chancel. Mrs.
You will as certainly come to the altar-rails with him as you will to your death-bed. It is written in your face. Good-bye." For the first time Angela's courage really gave way as she heard these dreadful words. She remembered how she herself had called Lady Bellamy an embodiment of the "Spirit of Power," and now she felt that the comparison was just.
I'll work, like my betters, and take not a stick or a clod away from that Melcombe." The guests were arriving. John Mortimer had been standing at the altar-rails, his three sons with him. Several members of the family grouped themselves right and left of him. This was to be the quietest of weddings.
He went so far as to urge her to say whether she would as willingly utter consent if they were in a church and a clergyman at the altar-rails. 'That was like him. 'She made answer: "Wherever it may be, I am bound, if I say yes." 'She then adds: "He told me he joined hands with me." "Did he repeat the word 'wife'?" "He said it twice." 'I transcribe verbatim scrupulously.
Whiter squares on the whitewashed walls, sodden now with damp, and peeling, showed where the pictures of the Stations of the Cross had hung; with them all draperies had been stripped away and hidden. The crimson-velvet-covered ropes that had done duty instead of altar-rails had been removed, their brass supports unscrewed from the floor.
The carriages arrived at last; and presently the wedding-train came up the narrow aisle, and took their places about the altar-rails. Henry Dunbar stood behind his daughter, with his face in shadow. The marriage-service was commenced. The Major's eyes were wide open now. Those sharp eager black eyes took notice of everything.
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