En Route by J.K. Huysmans

Author:J.K. Huysmans [Huysmans, J.K.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Catholicism, Fiction, French Literature, Religion, Classics, Decadence
ISBN: 9781437816785
Publisher: Lightning Source Incorporated
Published: 2008-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

He turned the card, and on the other side was a new horary, entitled:—

"Winter Exercises, from the Invention of the Cross in September to Easter."

The hour of rising was the same, but bed-time was an hour earlier; dinner was changed from 11.30 to 2; siesta and supper at 6 o'clock were suppressed; the canonical hours were the same, except vespers and compline, which were changed from 5.15 and 7.25 to 4.30 and 6.15.

"It is not pleasant to drag oneself from bed in the middle of the night," sighed Durtal, "but I am inclined to think that the Retreatants are not subject to this rule of wakefulness," and he took up another card. "This must be the one intended for me," he said, reading the head of the card:—

Rules of Retreat from Easter to the Invention of the Cross in September.

Let us look at these rules rather more closely.

He examined the two tables, brought together, one for the morning, and one for the evening.

Morning.

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