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come and pay. If I could only
see them, I would be content to
die.”

But he could not see them, and
Patrasche could not help him, for to
gain the silver piece that the church
exacts as the price for looking on the
glories of the Elevation of the Cross
and the Descent from the Cross was a
thing as utterly beyond the powers
of either of them as it would have
been to scale the heights of the
cathedral spire. They had never so
much as a sou to spare: if they
cleared enough to get a little wood
for the stove, a little broth for the
pot, it was the utmost they could do,
And yet the heart of the child was
set in sore and endless longing upon