The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-19
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velvet shoes of the same shade. If the
person to be presented is a lady and has an
outer shawl or cloak. one OF the servants
takes it from her and lays it down on one
of the many carved benches ranged around
the hail. The card Of admission borne by
the aspirant to the audience is examined
and in low whisper and by gestures one
is moved forwards into an apartment
which may be called a salon. This is
richly carpeted and has chairs covered
with silk of the same color and quality as
as the men servants coats. The walls
are frescoed with pictures repre-
senting sacred subjects. There is no mir
ror in the room. and on one solitary mar
bie-topped. gllt-legged table. between the
two big windows, stands very large and
beautifully executed crucitix in ebony and
ivory. More of the crimson-cOated serv-
ing men meet one here, take another glance
at ones ticket and motions one to seat.
LAST come, last served"
Ii is, of course, probable that in the case
Of the Populations of pilgrims there Is
some arrangement among themselves,
upon which their order Of precedence de-
ponds. On ordinary occasions thOst ia
vOred with audiences wait for length Of
time. measured by the period accorded to
those who have preceded them. into the
presence Of the holy father. We cannot
do better than resume the account written
of her experiences by the lady We men,
toned before. ''We," she proceeds, ''whO
waited in the before named salon for .
considerable time. Every now and then
servants slided mysteriously across the
salon from the greater outer hall into
some room beyond, or an ecciesiastic,
some humble priest in a sOutana or q
great prelate in a purple robe passed to
and fro. The audience hour was IL at
noon, but it was twenty minutes past that
time when two of the men servants and
a very benign-faced old gentleman in the
ordinary evening dress of the nineteenth
century, but wearing many orders and
medals, came to the inner door and
beckoned half a dozen who sat nearest,
and these, going before, led the way.
After about five or six minutes these
came out, mostly one by one, and disap-
peared into the greater outer hail. As fast
as the groups of people left the room to be
presented, those left behind kept moving
upwards on the seats, until at last the
last four persons of the whole party of
sixty moved into the inner room. /
was one of these four. The benignant
white-haired gentleman motioned me
into what is. | believe, small narrow
room, comparatively small, l mean, but
not really. But l cannot tell you what
the room is like. | thought only Of hav-
ing reached the goal and of him who sat,
bending forward, in a low chair. canopied,
l think, and gided. On either side Of him
stood Mgr. Volpi (his maestro di casa) and
another domestic prelate. AS / said
thought only of the thin, shadowy. bend
ing figure, white from head to foot, save
the purple, gold-embroidered slipper. with
long. thin face, carved, as it were, out Of
ivory, and lighted by the most piercing
and brilliant, yet, at the same time, the
most tender black ewes have ever seen.
I had good look at him, because two