Taken singly, those slender flames, those mere specks of light, were modest and unobtrusive, like the lowly; it was only their great number that supplied the effulgence, the sun-like resplendency.

Fresh ones were continually appearing, farther and farther away, like waifs and strays.

"Ah!" murmured the young priest, "do you see that one which has just begun to flicker, all by itself, far away--do you see it, Marie?
Do you see how it floats and slowly approaches until it is merged in the great lake of light ?" In the vicinity of the Grotto one could see now as clearly as in the daytime.

The trees, illumined from below, were intensely green, like the painted trees in stage scenery.

Above the moving brasier were some motionless banners, whose embroidered saints and silken cords showed with vivid distinctness.