Then little by little the church became lighted up, seemed inhabited, illuminated, overpowered by hundreds of stars, like a summer sky.
Two chairs being unoccupied, Angelique stood upon one of them.
"Get down, my dear," whispered Hubertine, "for that is forbidden." But she tranquilly remained there, and did not move.
"Why is it forbidden?
I must see, at all events.

Oh! how exquisite all this is!" At last she prevailed upon her mother to get upon the other chair.
Now the whole Cathedral was glowing with a reddish yellow light.

This billow of candles which crossed it illuminated the lower arches of the side-aisles, the depth of the chapels, and glittered upon the glass of some shrine or upon the gold of some tabernacle.

The rays even penetrated into the apse, and the sepulchral crypts were brightened up by them.

The choir was a mass of flame, with its altar on fire, its glistening stalls, and its old railing, whose ornamentation stood out boldly.