Eothen By A. W. Kingslake

































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I came to Nazareth, and was led from the convent to the sanctuary.
Long fasting will sometimes heat my brain - Page 111
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I Came To Nazareth, And Was Led From The Convent To The Sanctuary. Long Fasting Will Sometimes Heat My Brain And Draw Me Away Out Of The World - Will Disturb My Judgment, Confuse My Notions Of Right And Wrong, And Weaken My Power Of Choosing The Right:

I had fasted perhaps too long, for I was fevered with the zeal of an insane devotion to the heavenly queen of Christendom.

But I knew the feebleness of this gentle malady, and knew how easily my watchful reason, if ever so slightly provoked, would drag me back to life. Let there but come one chilling breath of the outer world, and all this loving piety would cower and fly before the sound of my own bitter laugh. And so as I went I trod tenderly, not looking to the right nor to the left, but bending my eyes to the ground.

The attending friar served me well; he led me down quietly and all but silently to the Virgin's home. The mystic air was so burnt with the consuming flames of the altar, and so laden with incense, that my chest laboured strongly, and heaved with luscious pain. There - there with beating heart the Virgin knelt and listened. I strived to grasp and hold with my riveted eyes some one of the feigned Madonnas, but of all the heaven-lit faces imagined by men there was none that would abide with me in this the very sanctuary. Impatient of vacancy, I grew madly strong against Nature, and if by some awful spell, some impious rite, I could - Oh most sweet Religion, that bid me fear God, and be pious, and yet not cease from loving!

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