The Monks of Thelema: A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Monks of Thelema: A Novel

The minutes passed by, but no one came to relieve their meditation and suspense. The soft music, the great dark hall, the strange light in the painted glass, the row of tiny gas-jets, the novelty of the situation, produced a feeling as if they were in a church where the organist's mind was running upon secular things, or else on the stage at the opera waiting for the procession to begin. An odd feeling - such a feeling as must have passed over the minds of a City congregation two centuries and a half ago, when their Puritan ministers took for Church use the tunes which once delighted a court, and therefore belonged to the Devil.

The girl heaved a. Sigh of suspense, and her companion, who had all this time looked straight before him without daring to break upon the silence, or to look at his partner in this momentous ceremony, looked round. This is what he would have seen had the light been stronger; as it was, the poor man had to content himself with a harmony in twilight.

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