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Excerpt from The Born Fool The small spot of sunlight, a perfect circle on the church wall, was itself a little sun. It used to glow there so friendly; and then sometimes it would begin fading, changing, moving slowly along, suddenly to melt and vanish. The child Kirk would remain gazing at the wall, waiting for the small disc of hot sunlight to return and look back at him. To him this place was very solemn - filled with holiness; and his mother knelt and prayed beside him at times, while he sat still. But on occasions, especially upon Good Friday, his knees had felt a bruised itchiness long before the end of those prayers he tried to understand. But he loved much to come here with Mary, his sister, and his mother, to listen with secret child's passion to the organ; to watch his elder brother, an acolyte, holding the incense-boat; and when the organ stopped playing he looked for the small circle to come glowing on the wall. The fine shaft of sunlight came through an old bullet-hole high up in the dark crimson-purple window. Turning right round one day, Kirk had discovered it - a dazzling spot. The drifting incense floated through the long fine rod of light, and the motes of the air twinkled in it like the dust of gold in lapis lazuli. The brilliant beam seemed to end in the air, and be pointing to the warm spot upon the wall. While the disc of sunlight remained, the child gazed on it and vividly dreamed. 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
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