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This Someone was saying to him now: "The meeting is My gift!" and so the monk joined his friends joyfully. Maria presented him to Noemi, and he blushed again on recognising the woman he had mistaken for Benedetto's temptress. "And your friend?" he inquired, trembling lest he be informed of her presence there. Upon being reassured a look of relief flashed across his face.
When asked these questions by his followers he replied that he did not mean to preach asceticism as a rule for all; but that in individual cases like Benedetto's, for instance, it was a psychological necessity.
Having spoken thus, the man of the flowing grey beard once more began to stroke it, first with one hand, then with the other, and, puckering his eyes, which sparkled with a shrewd smile, for he was pleased with his own words, watched for surprise on Benedetto's face. "We are, moreover, believers also," he continued.
An accusation of a really serious nature has been lodged against you with the judicial authorities, and I see that not only your reputation for saintliness is in danger, but also your personal liberty, and hence your preaching, at least for several years." A flame spread over Benedetto's face, and his eyes flashed. "Leave the saintliness and the reputation alone," said he.
Suddenly, a few seconds after Benedetto's eyes had closed to her gaze, she was shaken and rent from shoulder to knee by a great sob, a sob bitter with all the bitterness of her fate. He opened his eyes and looked tenderly at her, while she drank in his look thirstily, sobbing twice, as in sorrowful gratitude.
You are in the monastery, and still you are not in the monastery. I fear your head serves you no better than your great-grandfather's, your grandfather's, and your father's served them. Fine heads, those!" Benedetto's ivory face flushed slightly. "They are souls with God," he said, "better than we are, and your words offend against one of God's commandments." "Silence!" the Abbot exclaimed.
But I will say it" here Benedetto's voice trembled with emotion "as I have said it to no one else, I believe, I know that God is the Father of us all; but I feel His paternity in my nature. Mine is hardly a sense of duty, it is a sense of sonship." "And do you believe it is your duty to exercise the religious action here and now?" Benedetto clasped his hands, as if already imploring attention.
"So he is Benedetto's companion. A worthy pair." "I thought so, too," continued Gratillet, laughing. "Suddenly the rat sprang from the arm of its master on to that of the ex-priest, and rubbing its pointed nose on his sleeve it fawned about him. "'Oh, what a beautiful animal! exclaimed Anselmo; 'present it to me. "'I would be a fool, replied the hunchback, gruffly.
Benedetto answered, ill-pleased to find that his name, who knows by what means, had been revealed. "I do not yet know whether I go to Rome." "I shall follow you," the young man said, impulsively. "You will follow me? But why should you follow me?" In reply the young man took his hand, and, in spite of Benedetto's resistance and protests, raised it to his lips. "Why?" said he.
For some time past Jeanne had suspected that they were acquainted with Benedetto's real name. A moment before, when they had exchanged those silent and sorrowful glances, the Selvas and Jeanne had understood one another, Giovanni and his wife saw that if Jeanne were thus heroically controlling herself it was not on their account, but on di Leynì's account.
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