The whole altar was lighted up; the smoke from the censers hung a cloudy rainbow in the air.

Andrii gazed from his dark corner, not without surprise, at the wonders worked by the light.

At that moment the magnificent swell of the organ filled the whole church.

It grew deeper and deeper, expanded, swelled into heavy bursts of thunder; and then all at once, turning into heavenly music, its ringing tones floated high among the arches, like clear maiden voices, and again descended into a deep roar and thunder, and then ceased.

The thunderous pulsations echoed long and tremulously among the arches; and Andrii, with half-open mouth, admired the wondrous music.
Then he felt some one plucking the shirt of his caftan.