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The Velvet Glove

CHAPTER V
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A PILGRIMAGE Evasio Mon was a great traveler.

In Eastern countries a man who makes the pilgrimage to Mecca adds thereafter to his name a title which carries with it not only the distinction conferred upon the dullest by the sight of other men and countries, but the bearer stands high among the elect.
If many pilgrimages could confer a title, this gentle-mannered Spaniard would assuredly have been thus decorated.

He had made almost every pilgrimage that the Church may dictate--that wise old Church, which fills so well its vocation in the minds of the restless and the unsatisfied.

He had been many times to Rome.

He could tell you the specific properties of every shrine in the Roman Catholic world.


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