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Updated: May 24, 2025
However, it was a good investment in leather, for it brings me in the reputation of a reading man and a patron of literature. Mrs. P. is a religious woman the Rev. Cream Cheese takes care of that but only yesterday she proposed something to me that smells very strongly of candlesticks. "Pot., I want a prie-dieu." "Pray-do what?" answered I. "Stop, you wicked man. I say I want a kneeling-chair."
"A kneeling-chair?" I gasped, utterly confused. "A prie-dieu a prie-dieu to pray in, you know." My Sennaar friend, who was at table, choked. When he recovered, and we were sipping the "Blue seal," he told me that he thought Mrs. Potiphar in a prie-dieu was rather a more amusing idea than Giddo's Madonna in the dining-room. "She will insist upon its being carved handsomely in walnut.
The service went on in the midst of a palpable hush; the very air seemed hardly to vibrate; the bride, attended by her two angiolini, left her gorgeous kneeling-chair and advanced to the open door in the grating, where the priest met her. Question and answer were interchanged in Italian, and the young girl vowed that of her own free will she left the world and joined the order of St. Dominic.
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