In the morning such of the colony as adhered to the Greek Church, went _en masse_ to the quaint little church which had come to be erected and which had been consecrated by a travelling Archbishop, and there with reverent devotion joined in worship, using the elaborate service of the Greek rite.

The religious duties over, they proceeded still further to celebrate the day in a somewhat riotous manner.
With the growth of the colony new houses had been erected which far outshone Paulina's in magnificence, but Paulina's still continued to be a social centre chiefly through Rosenblatt's influence.

For no man was more skilled than he in the art of promoting sociability as an investment.

There was still the full complement of boarders filling the main room and the basement, and these formed a nucleus around which the social life of a large part of the colony loved to gather.
It was a cold evening in February.

The mercury had run down till it had almost disappeared in the bulb and Winnipeg was having a taste of forty below.