[Guy Fawkes by William Harrison Ainsworth]@TWC D-Link bookGuy Fawkes CHAPTER XII 13/13
Here they were presently joined by several of the female devotees, including Viviana, Anne Vaux, and Lady Digby.
Matins were then said, after which various offerings were made at the shrine of the saint.
Lady Digby presented a small tablet set in gold, representing on one side the martyrdom of Saint Winifred, and on the other the Salutation of our Lady.
Anne Vaux gave a small enamelled cross of gold; Viviana a girdle of the same metal, with a pendant sustaining a small Saint John's head surrounded with pearls. "Mine will be a poor soldier's offering," said Guy Fawkes, approaching the shrine, which was hung around with the crutches, staves, and bandages of those cured by the healing waters of the miraculous spring. "This small silver scallop-shell, given me by a pilgrim, who died in my arms near the chapel of Saint James of Compostella, in Spain, is the sole valuable I possess." "It will be as acceptable as a more costly gift, my son," replied Garnet, placing it on the shrine. Of all the offerings then made, that silver scallop-shell is the only one preserved..
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