Excerpt from The Bridal of Anstace The invited guests were standing in two groups on either side the broad, pewless space; those on the bride's side nervously afraid lest they should be required to kneel on the slippery, polished floor as some of the smaller group opposite were oh served to do from time to time during the long Mass which opened the proceedings. The unin vited were herded into the gallery at the west end, over the narthex, whence those in the back rows could see little but the great swaying chandelier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.