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arch, catching the evening rays, and seeming to soar away into
amazing heights of flickering light and shadow. Presently
the stalls
to which I listened !
it ceased I found I had been weeping.
But it ceased at last, and then Leven touched me, and bade
me look at the figures in niches which adorned the choir above
the stalls of the religious. Some were kings, some bishops,
some hooded monks, in stone, habited like those of flesh and
blood, who sang beneath them.
" A devotion of my own," he
said, " the English saints, Oswald and Edmund, and the two
TUE AUSTRALIAN DUKE OR THE NEW UTOPIA.
Edwards, kings of our race and our ; bishops, St. Augustine
and St. Ethelwold and the ;
good Odo, St. Dunstan, and the
two St. Thomases and dear old St. ; Bichard, of Chichester ;
and English Benedictines, too, St. Bede, St. Benedict, St. Aldhelm,
and St. Wolstan ! What a galaxy of saints, and what
saints they were, yet who in England cares now to think of
" I meant
don't spin cobwebs out of what I said just now.
nothing in "
particular.
" I sometimes fancy it is no