[The Cathedral by Joris-Karl Huysmans]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cathedral CHAPTER XI 26/35
She is hardly pretty, and stands in the obsequious attitude of an advocate. Solomon looks like a jovial good fellow.
The two effigies on the other side of the door might perhaps invite attention if they were not so completely crushed by the third.
Again a question.
By what right does the author of that admirable book 'Ecclesiastes' find a place in these ranks of honour ?" "Jesus the son of Sirach prefigures the Messiah as a Prophet and a Doctor.
As to the figure next to him, it may equally well be Judith or Esther: her identity is doubtful; there is nothing that can help us to determine it. "At any rate, as I told you but now, each is a harbinger of the Virgin. As to Joseph persecuted and sold, a slave raised almost to the throne, the merciful protector of his people, he is the prototype of Christ." Durtal paused to gaze up at the beardless face, with curling hair cut close round.
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