Sinópse: Excerpt from Beatrice, or the Unknown Relatives, Vol. 2 of 3 Depth Of her anguish at this threatened change. The remembrance Of several beautiful hymns which, as children they had learned together, Of the chapters they had conned over with Lady Edith, Of the catechism they had learned, Of the family prayers in which they had united with Sir Evan, all recurred to the thoughts Of Beatrice now with tearful sorrow; but she yet trusted that a founda tion Of faith, SO carefully laid in Allan’s mind, would not be easily overthrown and unaccountable as his endless Silence had become, Beatrice hoped against hope, that the principles Of Allan as well as his friendship might yet prove unalterable. Lady mcalpine, like all new converts, was astonishing and perplexing the pope himself by the wild extremes Of her enthusiasm about relics and images, while occupying her whole time in working dresses for the priests, in planning patterns for encaustic tiles, and in singing litanies to the Virgin; evidently in a perfect delirium Of spiritual intoxication, believing everything She was told with all her might, and worshipping at random whatever a priest placed before her, – whether a wooden image, or some Old instrument of torture, a decayed tooth, or the finger of somebody who perhaps was a saint, and quite as probably not. What influence such a mother had been able to Obtain, with the assistance Of his guardian-uncle, over Allan, no one could divine, but Lady Strath. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.