She remained kneeling during a considerable time, for the attitude of prayer is natural to discreet virgins and it shows off their figures.
The Reverend Father Douillard ascended the pulpit.

He was a powerful orator and could, at once melt, surprise, and rouse his hearers.

Women complained only that he fulminated against vice with excessive harshness and in crude terms that made them blush.

But they liked him none the less for it.
He treated in his sermon of the seventh trial of St.Orberosia, who was tempted by the dragon which she went forth to combat.

But she did not yield, and she disarmed the monster.