Ascension Day

From Easter to Ascension-day, these portentous circumstances took place almost every night.

Let us see, though, whether death has not something to do with Ascension-day.

On the 24th of May, the eve of Ascension-day, she learned that Compiegne was being besieged, and she resolved to re-enter it.

Between twelve and one o'clock on the 26th of May, Ascension-Day, the ringing of bells announced the opening of the great fair.