'I am sorry I said anything about him,' said she to Anne; 'it was
scarcely right to laugh at him, especially before Dora; I am afraid
she will never see the monument without thinking of the chimney.'
At this moment they arrived at the church, and all their attention
was bestowed upon it. It was built in the Early English style, and
neither pains nor expense had been spared. Anne, who had not been
there since the wall had been four feet above the ground, was most
eager to see it; and Elizabeth, who had watched it from day to day,
was equally eager to see whether Anne would think of everything in it
as she did herself.
As the door opened, a flood of golden light poured in upon the pure
white stone Font, while the last beams of the evening sun were
streaming through the western window, shining on the edges of the
carved oak benches, and glancing upon the golden embroidery of the
crimson velvet on the Altar, above which, the shadows on the groined
roof of the semi-octagonal chancel were rapidly darkening, and the
deep tints of the five narrow lancet windows within five arches,
supported and connected by slender clustered shafts with capitals of
richly carved foliage, were full of solemn richness when contrasted
with the glittering gorgeous hues of the west window.
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