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I look for no letter back for this since you have nothing to write with in the hut, as I know; but Dick will tell me how you do; as well as anything you may choose to say to him. "I ask your reverence's blessing again. I do not forget your reverence in my poor prayers." And so it ended, without signature for safety's sake.
Probably it was not the first time he had been obliged to argue with a convent door-keeper, that is, with the most incredulous and obstinate kind of human being in the world. 'Unless I am mistaken, Gambardella answered, 'her Reverence's name, in religion, is Mother Agatha, and she was formerly Sub-Prioress of your house in Ravenna.
Or what that outward, whose loose plaits and long train fall round his Reverence's mule and are large enough to cover a camel; is it not charity that spreads itself so wide to the succor of all men? that is, to instruct, exhort, comfort, reprehend, admonish, compose wars, resist wicked princes, and willingly expend not only their wealth but their very lives for the flock of Christ: though yet what need at all of wealth to them that supply the room of the poor apostles?
"Why, then, your Reverence's honor, maybe I did make a bit of a mistake, sir" taking up the jug, and tasting its contents: "Hut! bad scran to me, but I did, beggin' your honor's pardon; how-an-diver, I'll soon rightify that, your Reverence." So saying, she went and brought him a pint of the stoutest the house afforded. The stranger drank a glass of it, and then ordered hot water and sugar, adding
In the pathway below him stood a sailor; a middle-sized, middle-aged man, rigged out in best shore-going clothes shiny tarpaulin hat, blue coat and waistcoat, shirt open at the throat, and white duck trousers with broad-buckled waistbelt. "Beggin' your Reverence's pardon," began the visitor, touching the brim of his hat, and then upon second thoughts uncovering, "but my name's Jope Ben Jope."
His reverence's luggage was not bulky; it consisted of a plain wooden box, a bundle of bed-clothes, two walking-sticks, and some pipes tied together with string. As they passed through the various villages the sacristan was often chaffed by the inhabitants. "Well," they called out to him, "couldn't you find a better conveyance than that for your new priest?"
He had been waiting anxiously, hoping that Father Cullen would go, and now the difficulties in his way were more than doubled. Captain Ussher, however, took no notice of his silence; but, sitting down by Father John, began rubbing and warming his hands at the fire. "Well, may I be d d begging your reverence's pardon if this isn't as cold a night as I'd wish to be out in, and as dark as my hat.
What d'ye want wid me?" Leary trembled, big as he was, and pulled off his fur cap with both hands. "Aye, skipper, aye! but where bes she now?" he whispered. "She bes sleepin' like any poor babe in his reverence's own bed," replied the skipper. "Saints presarve us!" exclaimed the other. "In the blessed father's bed!
But Borromée replied, "It made part of a lot of armor that the reverend prior bought yesterday to arm the convent." "I!" said Gorenflot. "Yes; do you not remember that they brought several cuirasses and casques here, according to your reverence's orders?" "It is true," said Gorenflot.
Surely Heaven hath sent me more grace and manners. Hark, I hear Jorworth's horn at the gate." "He blows like a town swineherd," said Aldrovand, in disdain. "It is not your reverence's pleasure that I should restore the cattle unto them, then?" said Flammock. "Yes, thus far. Prithee, deliver him straightway over the walls such a tub of boiling water as shall scald the hair from his goatskin cloak.
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