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A table was magnificently laid for fifty or more, and the place was brilliantly illuminated by means of lustres with hundreds of wax lights.

Our eyes alone showed life as they reflected the bright wax lights in the candlesticks.

The plan was this:— Some small squat wax lights, used by nurses to “watch baby,” were procured.

The wax lights on the dressing-table, and the unsnuffed dip with which the old housekeeper lit us through endless passages, leave all the corners dark.

Happily, reason comes to the rescue, and the priest and the cathedral, p. 5and the Mass and the music, the incense and wax lights, disappear.