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"A donkey," answered des Lupeaulx; "but, as you see, he uses means, he gives monstrances; he succeeds, thanks to some clever hand that pulls the wires."
Then, to please the females, he described to them the reliquaries, feretories, calices, crosiers, crosses, pyxes, monstrances, and other wonders ecclesiastical, and the goblets, hanaps, watches, Clocks, chains, brooches, &c., so that their mouths watered. "But, Kate, when I came to the illuminated work from Ghent and Bruges, my heart sank. Mine was dirt by the side of it.
"Business?" exclaimed Marzio in loud ironical tones. "This is a good time for talking of business as good as any other! What is it?" "The Cardinal wants another piece of work done, a very fine piece of work." "The Cardinal? I will not make any more chalices for your cardinals. I am sick of chalices, and monstrances, and such stuff." "It is none of those," answered Don Paolo quietly.
"A fellow who was a gentleman of the Bedchamber," went on Mitral, "a former 'chouan, what's his name? La Billardiere is dead." "True," said Gobseck. "And our nephew is giving monstrances to the church," snarled Gigonnet. "He is not such a fool as to give them, he sells them, old man," said Mitral, proudly. "He wants La Billardiere's place, and in order to get it, we must seize " "Seize!
The drawers are used mainly for the keeping of the sacred vestments; the table for the spreading out of such of these as are about to be or have just been used; and the cupboards above for the holding of all the treasures of the church chalices for the altar, monstrances for the exposition of the sacrament, reliquaries of all sorts of shapes and sizes for the preservation of the relics of saints, ornamental candlesticks, and such like.
The sacristy itself was not spared, its presses being broken into, its chests destroyed, and two monstrances broken; but nothing further was touched. The storehouses and the small cloth-factory connected with the monastery remained intact, like the church.
Upon the shelves were numerous models in red wax, of chalices, monstrances, marvellous ewers and embossed basins for the ablution of the priests' hands, crucifixes, crowns, palm and olive branches in a word, models of all those things which pertain to the service and decoration of the church, and upon which it has been the privilege of the silversmith to expend his art and labour from time immemorial until the present day.
"'What sort of stuff is it? Silver? "'There is some silver, I said, superciliously; 'a good deal, in fact. But that's hardly worth while. You see this stuff is a collection. It belongs, at present, to one of those fools who collect jewelry and church plate; monstrances, jeweled chalices and things of that kind. "Piragoff licked his lips.
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