[Seraphita by Honore de Balzac]@TWC D-Link bookSeraphita CHAPTER VII 8/10
"What do you there, in motionless ranks ?" cried Wilfrid.
They answered not.
"What do you there, motionless ?" They answered not. Wilfrid waved his hands over them, crying in a loud voice, "What do you there, in motionless ranks ?" All, with unanimous action, opened their garments and gave to sight their withered bodies, eaten with worms, putrefied, crumbling to dust, rotten with horrible diseases. "You lead the nations to Death," Wilfrid said to them.
"You have depraved the earth, perverted the Word, prostituted justice.
After devouring the grass of the fields you have killed the lambs of the fold. Do you think yourself justified because of your sores? I will warn my brethren who have ears to hear the Voice, and they will come and drink of the spring of Living Waters which you have hidden." "Let us save our strength for Prayer," said Minna.
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