292 The Unknown River. 



altar, and does duty as a saint. The dress and accesso- 

 ries have been repainted, to suit the present destination 

 of the work ; but the worldly, seventeenth-century face 

 looks still out of its flowing wig, between the tall candles 

 on the altar. And the priest kneels, and the people bow, 

 and the incense rises before it 1 



