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At first these were met with silence, but, feeling a need for sympathy, the architect eventually confessed the truth; and the good dame, horrified at what she heard, hurried off to impart the story to her father-confessor.
She had no one to consult with, having none but Spanish people about her, except her German father-confessor, whom, as a great favour, and after a severe struggle, she had beep allowed to retain, as otherwise her ignorance of the national language would have made it impossible for her to confess her little sins.
Absolution was pronounced over him again and again, but who ever gave him any assurance that he had fulfilled its conditions, and therefore could really confide in its efficacy? As for acts of penance, he willingly performed them, and, indeed, did far more in the way of prayer, fasting, and vigil than either the rules of the convent demanded or his father-confessor enjoined.
The man shrugged his shoulders, observing that he believed no surgeons were to be found in the place, and, as far as he could judge, a father-confessor would be a more fitting visitor. "You think, then, that I am about to die?" I asked. "To tell you the truth, senor, I believe that if you don't die of your wound, you will, very shortly, in some other way," he replied, giving a sardonic grin.
Even her mother chided her, asking if she did not "remember the day." "Indeed, I shall have occasion to remember it," was her ambiguous answer; "but Mondays in the country are always blue, and I'll do my repenting then. If I were a good Catholic I'd hunt up a priest to-morrow." "I'll be your father-confessor to-day," said a black-eyed young man, twirling his mustache. "You, Mr. Sibely?
Believe me, signor, 'tis naught save a ridiculous legend; though a poor, ignorant man myself, I hope I have too much good sense and too much respect for my father-confessor, to suppose for a minute that there is on earth any set of men more learned than the holy ministers of the church."
"Oh yes," said Mark. "If you appointed yourself her father-confessor she must have been a wee bit surprised." "The surprise was on my side," said Mark. "What about?" demanded Carrissima. "The state of her finances. All she has in the world is the remnant of two or three thousand pounds she inherited from her mother. Rosser left her nothing, and she is calmly spending her capital."
The garrison, originally of a thousand veterans, besides burgher militia, had been much diminished. Two commandants of the place, one after another, had lost their lives. On the 1st of June, Governor De Masieres, Captain Mongyn, the father-confessor of the garrison, and two soldiers, being on the top of the great church tower taking observations, were all brought down with one cannon-shot.
"I am all attention! Consider me your father-confessor. Miss Gueldmar, and explain the reason of this 'bad, fierce' temper of yours." She peeped at him shyly from under her silken lashes. "It is more dreadful than you think," she answered in a low tone. "Mr. Dyceworthy asked me to marry him." Lorimer's keen eyes flashed with indignation.
"I know what a sacrifice it is to Dinah, for she does so dislike leaving home; but she is doing it for Elizabeth's sake." "You are doing it for Elizabeth's sake too, are you not, David?" asked his father quietly. Then the harassed face brightened at once. "Let me tell you all about it, dad," he returned eagerly "it will be such a comfort; you have often been my father-confessor before.
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