En Route

En Route

En RouteDuring the first week in November, the week within the Octave of All Souls, Durtal entered...
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Author: Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl),1848-1907
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Language: English
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En Route

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En Route

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Author: Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl),1848-1907
Format: eBook
Language: English

En Route

During the first week in November, the week within the Octave of All Souls, Durtal entered St. Sulpice, at eight o'clock in the evening. He often chose to turn into that church, because there was a trained choir, and because he could there examine himself at peace, apart from the crowd. The ugliness of the nave, with its heavy vaulting, vanished at night, the aisles were often empty, it was ill-lighted by a few lampsit was possible for a man to chide his soul in secret, as if at home. Durtal sat down behind the high altar, on the left, in the aisle along the Rue de St. Sulpice; the lamps of the choir organ were lighted. Far off, in the almost empty nave, an ecclesiastic was preaching. He recognized, by the unctuousness of his delivery, and his oily accent, a well-fed priest who poured on his audience, according to his wont, his best known commonplaces. "Why are they so devoid of eloquence?" thought Durtal. "I have had the curiosity to listen to many of them, and they are much the same. They only vary in the tones of their voice. According to their temperament, some are bruised down in vinegar, others steeped in oil. There is no such thing as a clever combination." And he called to mind orators petted like tenors, Monsabr, Didon, those Coquelins of the Church, and lower yet than those products of the Catholic training school, that bellicose booby the Abb d'Hulst. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 24096
Author: Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
Release Date: Dec 31, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

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