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Updated: May 3, 2025
Secrecy and silence surrounded them, and extreme care had been taken to let no one suspect, excepting a few intimate friends, what was taking place on this sequestered, leaf-embowered grass-plat of St. Cloud. A bench of white marble, surrounded by high oleander and taxus trees, stood at the side of this grass-plat.
These serpents, which have been previously washed and covered with sacred meal, are deposited by the priest in a small leaf-embowered enclosure called the kisi. After making the circuit of the enclosure four times, they halt, and stand in line with their backs turned toward it. Then the Snake fraternity appears, headed by its priest, and performs the same ceremony.
It was a picture that poor Rose never forgot that presented to her at that moment. She saw two persons in the little leaf-embowered room a man and young woman. The latter stood with hand clasped about the neck of the young man, who was handsome in the extreme. Was there a handsomer man in Grandon than August Bordine?
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