Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · Newton, University Prints · leaf 79
to Poverty, the ceremony being per-formed by Christ. Nor does it require much explanation tounderstand the figure of this haggard and woebegone bride,whose robes hang in tatters, whose face has lost all come-liness, and whose youth has long disappeared. But upon herunlovely countenance Saint… … COCOCO CO oO oo o a O o -^$-1 oco The First of the Moderns 63 below who throws a stone at her, the substantial burgh-ers to the right who turn doubtfully away. The choice ofFrancis calls forth at once the jest of the frivolous and theskepticism of the thoughtful, as such a choice has ever done. The…
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