These details showed on scrutiny, but from afar off the attractive point was her dress.
Surely never before did woman, be she Queen or peasant, wear such a costume on a festive occasion.
She was dressed in a white _Shroud_, and in that only.

I had heard something of the story which goes behind that strange costume, and shall later on send it to you.

{2} When the procession entered the church through the great western door, the national song of the Blue Mountains, "Guide our feet through darkness, O Jehovah," was sung by an unseen choir, in which the organ, supplemented by martial instruments, joined.

The Archbishop was robed in readiness before the altar, and close around him stood the Archimandrites of the four great monasteries.

The Vladika stood in front of the Members of the National Council.