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Updated: June 17, 2025
Girls' heads were popped out of upper widows at the swinging of the gate, and, as the door opened, more heads appeared looking over the balusters from the hall above. The parlor into which they were taken was full of heavy, old-fashioned furniture, stiffly arranged. The sofa and chairs were covered with black haircloth, and stood closely against the wall.
One afternoon a few days before the date set for the meeting Elkanah and two or three of his henchmen were on the piazza of the Daniels home, discussing the situation. They were blue and downcast. Annabel was in the sitting room, shedding tears of humiliation and jealous rage on the haircloth sofa. "Well," observed her father, "there's one thing we can do.
Inside of the front door of this venerable mansion ran a wide hall bare of everything but a solid mahogany hat-rack and table with glass mirror and heavy haircloth settee, over which, suspended from the ceiling, hung a curious eight-sided lantern, its wick replaced with a modern gas-burner.
It was but another indication of his temperament, she thought a fault to be corrected with the others that threatened his success in life. Holding fast to the Colonel's hand she drew him to one of the old haircloth sofas and told him the whole story.
Deborah placed the big haircloth rocking-chair for the doctor's wife, and Mrs. Ray sat down on the sofa. There was a silence. The doctor's wife flushed red. Mrs. Ray's sharp face was imperturbable. Deborah, sitting erect in one of her best flag-bottomed chairs, looked as if she were alone in the room. The doctor's wife cleared her throat. "Mis' Thayer," she began.
Her frantic knocking was answered by a young woman in a light and artless costume of a quilted petticoat and a red flannel sack. "Oh, gracious goodness! Mrs. Lieders!" cried she. Thekla Lieders rather staggered than walked into the room and fell back on the black haircloth sofa.
Thus pain in slight degree is exciting, and in the sexual sphere pain is often sought as a means of heightening the pleasure, especially by women and by the roue. I suspect also that the haircloth shirt and the sackcloth and ashes of the anhedonic hermit were painful methods of seeking excitement. Sometimes pain is used in small amounts to relieve excitement.
He would rather be ignorant and holy, than educated and wicked. On his way into the mountains, he met a monk named Romanus, the spot is marked by the chapel of Santa Crocella, who gave him a haircloth shirt and a monastic dress of skins. Continuing his journey with Romanus, the youthful ascetic discovered a sunless cave in the desert of Subiaco, about forty miles from Rome.
After the first delight of meeting had passed, they sat side by side on the haircloth sofa and took stock of each other. Helen had developed from the school child to the woman. She was a handsome girl, possessed of a slender, well-rounded form, deep hazel eyes with the level gaze of her brother, a clean-cut patrician face, and a thorough-bred neatness of carriage that advertised her good blood.
Sitting beside the altar I saw an Armenian monk, somewhat black and lean, clad in a rough hairy coat to the middle of his leg, above which was a coarse black cloak, furred with spotted skins, and he was girded with iron under his haircloth. Before saluting the monk, we fell flat on the earth, singing Ave regina and other hymns, and the monk joined in our prayers.
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