Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950 · Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company · leaf 284
en thewalls of the small houses at either hand a long line offigures was marching with many silken banners. Thereseemed to be an interminable line of young girls — firstcommunicants, I fancied,— in all the purity of their whiteveils and gowns against the somber dull grays of thechurch. This mass of… … >.L J OUDENAARDE serving only to accentuate the pallor of their grave faces,veritable incarnations of meek renunciation, as somepoet has beautifully expressed it. Then followed a group of seminarians clad in the laceand scarlet of their order, swinging to and fro their brazencensers from which…
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