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Faith, who came next to him, wore her beauty like a rose, careless and glowing. She had golden-brown eyes, golden-brown curls and crimson cheeks. She laughed too much to please her father's congregation and had shocked old Mrs. Taylor, the disconsolate spouse of several departed husbands, by saucily declaring in the church-porch at that "The world ISN'T a vale of tears, Mrs. Taylor.
"My child," said the curé to me, one evening, when his long day's work was over, "your face is triste. What are you thinking of?" I was seated under a thick-leaved sycamore, a few paces from the church-porch. Vespers were just ended; the low chant had reached my ears, and I missed the soothing undertone.
It is a pity we have no chimes of bells, to give the churchward summons, at home. People were standing about the ancient church-porch and among the tombstones.
It is a fine ornament to a true church to have a large church-porch, or a wide bosom, for reception of all that come thither to worship.
Mass was at eight o'clock, and by the time Anthony entered the church he found a congregation of nearly two hundred souls; the village itself did not number above seventy, but many came in from the country round, and some had stayed all night in the church-porch.
"Lord, sir!" said the valet, "what occasion have you to go zig-zag in that manner? Do but clap spurs to your horses, and ride straight forward, and I'll engage yea shall be at the church-porch in less than a quarter of an hour.""What? right in the wind's eye?" answered the commodore; "ahey! brother, where did you learn your navigation?
He had pored over these old volumes so intensely that they seemed to have been reflected into his countenance; which, if the face be indeed an index of the mind, might be compared to a title-page of black-letter. On reaching the church-porch we found the parson rebuking the gray-headed sexton for having used mistletoe among the greens with which the church was decorated.
He was trembling and pale when at last they reached the bottom of the winding stair and stepped out on to the stones of the church-porch. Then suddenly the keeper caught Cyril and Robert each by an arm. "You bring along the gells, sir," said he; "you and Andrew can manage them." "Let go!" said Cyril; "we aren't running away. We haven't hurt your old church. Leave go!"
At the church-porch lamps glimmered, and in the air there was a faint odour either of incense or of faded poplar-leaves. "Hullo, Svarogitsch!" shouted some one behind him. Yourii turned round, and saw Schafroff, Sanine, Ivanoff and Peter Ilitch, who came across the court-yard, talking loudly and merrily.
Then, when they turned the corner, black with wrath, there were the lads gathered about the church-porch each with his weapon, and each white and silent, waiting for what should fall. "Now you wonder where we were. We were in the church, my brother and I; for our people had put us there against our will, to keep us safe, they said.
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