Tickets to the Sistine Chapel, to the Tenebrae, to the Benediction, and to the Glorification--and for three persons?
Why, money couldn't buy them at that late hour, he declared.

Admission tickets to paradise would be more easily obtainable.
At the very utmost, places might still be procured on some balcony overlooking the Piazza di San Pietro, but only at extremely high prices.
Yet the view from such a position would be a fine one; and mine host, without waiting to listen to any objections, hastened away to secure tickets, if they were still to be had.
The princess made her lament to Gabriel Zimandy over her poor success in obtaining what she so ardently desired, and that gentleman sought to console her with the assurance that it was highly venturesome for ladies to trust themselves in the crowd that always attended the church ceremonies of Holy Week, and that she could read all about them much more comfortably in the newspapers.

Blanka, however, took so much to heart the disappointment of her pious wishes, and came so near the point of tear-letting, that the advocate felt obliged to sally forth in person to see what he could do to console her.

In less than an hour he was back again, breathless and exultant.

He ran up-stairs with the agility of a much younger and less corpulent man, and hastened to the princess's room, regardless of the fact that she was at the moment under her hair-dresser's hands.
"Victory!" he cried, panting for breath.