Mexico City: An Idler's Note-book
Mexico City: An Idler's Note-book
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I shall not know them all, I fear, but they are sure to be there at early mass; I shall see the submerged two-thirds of Mexico at their devotions.
y Google An Idler's Note-Book 97 It will be different, very different, from that ceremony of yesterday in the San Domingo Cathedral. (What if that aristocratic old fane could be induced to tell what it knows about the Inquisition for the Re- pression of Heresy?) Mrs. Diaz was there — all the Spanish-Mexican na- bobs were there, — ^in silk attire and ...ablaze with gems.
It was very beautiful. The walls of the cathedral were hung with ruby silk-velvet, from the rich gild- ing of the frieze to the wainscot line; candles twinkled on a score of altars and blazed in constella- tions overhead; the rich vestments of the priests were heavy with gold embroidery; the images were crowned and hedged about with regular hot- y Google 98 Mexico City house flowers; and the music was an inspiration to high thinking for a week.
But perfect ceremonies like that are for the edification of Mexico's rich and mighty — and for friends of the American Consul-General; the hungry poor do not need such beau- tiful theatrics — ^they are content to slip into the church and hurriedly say their little prayer alone.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I shall not know them all, I fear, but they are sure to be there at early mass; I shall see the submerged two-thirds of Mexico at their devotions.
y Google An Idler's Note-Book 97 It will be different, very different, from that ceremony of yesterday in the San Domingo Cathedral. (What if that aristocratic old fane could be induced to tell what it knows about the Inquisition for the Re- pression of Heresy?) Mrs. Diaz was there — all the Spanish-Mexican na- bobs were there, — ^in silk attire and ...ablaze with gems.
It was very beautiful. The walls of the cathedral were hung with ruby silk-velvet, from the rich gild- ing of the frieze to the wainscot line; candles twinkled on a score of altars and blazed in constella- tions overhead; the rich vestments of the priests were heavy with gold embroidery; the images were crowned and hedged about with regular hot- y Google 98 Mexico City house flowers; and the music was an inspiration to high thinking for a week.
But perfect ceremonies like that are for the edification of Mexico's rich and mighty — and for friends of the American Consul-General; the hungry poor do not need such beau- tiful theatrics — ^they are content to slip into the church and hurriedly say their little prayer alone.
What to read after Mexico City: An Idler's Note-book?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Olive Percival to read onlineMoreLess
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