Mirror of Shalott

Excerpt from A Mirror of Shalott: Composed of Tales Told at a Symposium "I maintain," said Monsignor with a brisk air of aggressiveness and holding his pipe a moment from his mouth, "I maintain that agnosticism is the only reasonable position in these matters. Your common agnostic is no agnostic at all; he is the most dogmatic of sectarians. He declares that such things do not happen, or that they can be explained always on a materialistic basis. Now your Catholic -" Father Bianchi bristled, and rolled his black eyes fiercely. If he had had a moustache he would have twirled it. We were sitting in the upstairs sala of the presbytery attached to the Canadian Church of S. Filippo in Rome. It had been a large comfortless room, stone-floored, stone-walled and plaster-ceilinged, but it had been made possible by numerous rugs, a number of armchairs and an English fireplace. 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.