Istanbul

“Nonsense, sister! Banish these fancies with which the adversary endeavors to overturn weak imaginations. Address a Paternoster and an Ave Marie to the archangel,...

“There, you see,” the mother superior was saying, “your fear is entirely childish; there is no one in the church. All Seville is trooping...

“Because,” returned the organist, endeavoring to repress the agitation which revealed itself in the pallor of his face—“because it is so old and poor;...

At last the looked-for moment arrived, when the priest, after bowing low and murmuring the sacred words, took the host in his hands. The...

“Ignorance is the boldest of all things. It is true, the fault is not his, so much as theirs who have consented to this...

“What was that?” asked the great ladies of the chief judge. He had been one of the first to ascend to the organ-loft. Now,...

The multitudinous voices of the metal tubes gave forth a prolonged and majestic chord, which died away little by little, as if a gentle...

Nevertheless, several minutes passed before the celebrant appeared. The multitude commenced to murmur impatiently; the knights exchanged words with each other in a low...

`But why need I try to tell you about what you are going to hear lo-night? It is enough for you to see that...

“But what`s that? They`ve left off. What`s that light? Torches! a litter! It`s the bishop himself! God preserve him in his office as many...