In a little while could be heard the music of the bass horns, the clear voices of the children and the men's deeper notes.

At intervals all was still, and their shoes sounded like a herd of cattle passing over the grass.
The clergy appeared in the yard.

Mother Simon climbed on a chair to reach the bull's-eye, and in this manner could see the altar.
It was covered with a lace cloth and draped with green wreaths.

In the middle stood a little frame containing relics; at the corners were two little orange-trees, and all along the edge were silver candlesticks, porcelain vases containing sun-flowers, lilies, peonies, and tufts of hydrangeas.

This mound of bright colours descended diagonally from the first floor to the carpet that covered the sidewalk.