It happened that the latter part of this conference had been held near the Sacellum, or small chapel, which I have described in the early part of this work; and so soon as the forms of the Christian and the priest had disappeared from the grove, a dark and ungainly figure emerged from behind the chapel.
"The Last Days of Pompeii"
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
The whiteness of the small Sacellum in the centre of the grove, amidst the dark foliage, had in it something abrupt and startling; it recalled at once the purpose to which the wood was consecrated-its holiness and solemnity.
"The Last Days of Pompeii"
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton