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"Pete Halleck, unlock your door. It's I it's Frank Lyman, and I've something to say to you babies. Open up!" The composite face of the gathering fell. With Lyman against them, who could be for them? Frank Lyman, oracle of Encina and father-confessor of Freshmen! Pete threw the paraphernalia into his wardrobe. "The game's up, fellows." He opened the door, admitting the Senior, and with him, alas!
Thus, while Henry was holding high council with his own most trusted advisers, and with the most profound statesmen of Europe, as to the opening campaign within a fortnight of a vast and general war, he was secretly plotting with his father-confessor to effect what he avowed to be the only purpose of that war, by Jesuitical bird-lime to be applied to the chief of his antagonists.
Among these kings, too, there were most holy, most saintly people, and " "Then, what do you conclude from that, Duke?" asked Madame de Maintenon. "Why, that Madame will do well to respect his Majesty the King as her father-confessor." "Oh, Duke, you shock me! What dreadful advice, to be sure!" cried the governess. "I have not the least wish to shock you, madame; but my veneration for D'Aubigne
His father had disapproved of horses, or rather had been afraid of the Turf and its consequences. It was a while before the son could assuage his qualms and feel himself free to go forward in the prosecution of his desire. His old house-master, still his father-confessor in spiritual distresses, finally dispelled the young man's doubts and launched him on his destined way.
It may be only the fancy of an old trader; but I dare avow, if any sympathetic observer takes note of this simple trick of nervous fingers, it will raise the veil on more domestic tragedies and heart-burnings than any father-confessor hears in a year. "Miriam," said I, in answer to her timid protest, "Eric has risked his life seeking you. Won't you try all for Eric's sake? There'll be little risk!
The lady, believing her father-confessor, loaded the pretender with valuable gifts; presented him with her jewels; and was so attracted by his appearance that it was said she was willing to break her vows for his sake, and to share his throne with him. Unfortunately for the conspirators, before the plot was ripe, Spinosa's indiscretion ruined it.
Thus, while Henry was holding high council with his own most trusted advisers, and with the most profound statesmen of Europe, as to the opening campaign within a fortnight of a vast and general war, he was secretly plotting with his father-confessor to effect what he avowed to be the only purpose of that war, by Jesuitical bird-lime to be applied to the chief of his antagonists.
Ferdinand's father-confessor was a Jesuit, Lamormain, and under the latter's guidance Bohemia was being brought back to the fold, while elsewhere in Europe men like Tilly and Waldstein, whom Schiller preferred to call Wallenstein, were taking their part in the Catholic Reformation, with striking results, the sack of cities and the devastation of whole countries.
After a while, "Well, then," she began as though nothing had passed between them since his offer to give her advice, "well then, if you want to be father-confessor, tell me what you'd do in my place, if your family expected you as a matter of course to to " "What do they want you to do?" he asked as she hesitated. "Oh, nothing that they consider at all formidable!
Therefore I allow everyone to choose his day, food and quantity for fasting, as he will, on condition that he do not stop with that, but have regard to his flesh; let him put upon it fasting, watching and labor according to its lust and wantonness, and no more, although pope, Church, bishop, father-confessor or any one else whosoever have commanded it.
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