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Go in peace, father. I will ponder your words, and to-morrow you shall hear from me." The father bowed and retired, while the empress turned toward Counsellor Bundener and inquired the cause of his distress. "Oh, your majesty," cried the old man in accents of despair, "unless you help me I am ruined. If you come not again to my assistance my children will starve, for I am old and "
"What!" interrupted the empress, "your children starve with the pension I gave you from my own private purse?" "You did, indeed, give me a generous pension," replied Bundener, "and may God bless your majesty, for a more bountiful sovereign never bore the weight of a crown.
I hear that my son, the emperor, has forbidden his subjects to kneel to him; they shall not, therefore, kneel to me, for he is right. To God alone belongs such homage. Rise, therefore, Father Aloysius; the brothers of the holy order of Jesus must never kneel, to fellow-mortal. And you, Counsellor Bundener, rise also, and stand erect.
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