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"It is not needed," rejoined the other. "Attainted of felony, thy lands and abbey will be forfeited to the crown, and they shall be sold, as I have told thee, to John Braddyll and Richard Assheton, who will be rulers here in thy stead." "Would I had perished in the flood!" groaned the abbot. "Well mayst thou wish so," returned his tormentor; "but thou wert not destined to die by water.
Sam Abbot she went out there, and I went, too, and I never heard anythin' like the way she talked to Luella Miller. I felt pretty hard to Luella myself, but this was more than I ever would have dared to say. Luella she was too scared to go into hysterics. She jest flopped. She seemed to jest shrink away to nothin' in that kitchen chair, with Mrs.
And while this was singing in great accord, the workmen stood ready with their instruments in hand, to lift off the upper stone of the coffin, because it was well nigh impossible to remove the whole together, and also because the Abbot, Prior, and Convent, had resolved to see that holy body and relicks, by reason of the devotion which they bore to the blessed Cid, and that they might bear testimony in what manner he lay in that tomb, wherein he had been deposited to many years ago, as behoved them for the honour of the Cid and the authority of the Monastery.
In her life Mother Megges had not been lovely, but in the death that had overtaken her ! It was morning. The Lord Abbot and his monks were assembled in the guest-chamber, and opposite to them were the Lady Prioress and her nuns, and with them Emlyn. "Witchcraft!" shouted the Abbot, smiting his fist upon the table, "black witchcraft!
Mean as his fame put him, the Black Abbot had never been known to fall in all of his vicious life. On his right knee there was a great furrow, long as a man's finger and torn at one corner. It was scarcely the sort of wound that the edge of a stone would make on a falling horse. Ump and Jud and old Jourdan examined this wound for half a night, and finally declared that the horse had been shot.
Where stood the temple of Venus was now a vineyard, yielding excellent wine. 'Whereof, surely, you must not drink? interposed Basil, with a smile. 'Therein, good brother, replied Marcus, 'you show but little knowledge of our dear lord abbot.
When our academy was founded, no man in Andover suspected that California would become one of our United States; but California has recently received twelve million dollars for the founding of a University. I was acquainted with the founder of Smith College in Northampton, and also with the founder of Abbot Academy. In some particulars the two ladies had a marked resemblance to each other.
Then I will endeavour to obtain a full absolution from your vows, by the abbot; and should he decline to give them I will, when I next see the earl, pray him, in consideration of the good services that you have rendered, to obtain it for you from the bishop." "And you have not yourself thought of marrying, Oswald?" Adam Armstrong said. "Nay, Uncle.
Bertran's was a grudging spirit: you shall hear the Abbot Milo upon that matter anon, than whom there are few better qualified to speak. He grudged Richard everything his beauty, his knit and graceful body, his brain like a sword, his past exploits, his present content.
"Else why should I have given all that I have even five hundred pounds for St. Peter's church at Medehamstede presently? Answer me that, lord king, and be not so downhearted." This he said one day, being full of his purchase, and I think that the cheerfulness of the good man helped our king. "Verily, Redwald, my son," the abbot said to me, "if I get not St.
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