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But Philippa's own knowledge of aristocratic life told her in an instant that the reverence with which she was received was that of a high-born lady. It was plain that the eremitess was no peasant. Elaine seemed to know that she was no longer wanted, and she drew Annora away.
"Is it so?" responded the monk, with a pitying smile. "It seems to me that you have found it since last June the hardest thing in the world. Whither go you now?" he asked, suddenly changing his tone. "I go," she rejoined, "with this child, to the cell of an eremitess of whom she hath told me, `that hath, quoth she, `great power of comforting the sorrowful. All about here seem to know her.
Mother, all my life I have been drinking of many wells, but I never yet came to this Well. `Ancor soyf j'ay: tell me how I must labour, where I must go, to find that Well whereof the drinker "`Jamays soyf n'aura A l'eternite'?" "Who taught you those lines?" asked the eremitess quickly. "I found them in the device of a jewel," replied Philippa.
"This giving of ourselves, then," pursued Philippa slowly, "maketh the grace of condignity?" "We give to God," replied the low voice of the eremitess, "ourselves, and our sins. The last He purgeth away, and casteth them into the depths of the sea. Is there grace of condignity in them?
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