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But a man likes to be paid, you understand? So, having a job down Owston way, I thought I'd walk over and jog his reverence's memory." "The money will be paid, sir, in due course, I make no doubt," said Emilia bravely. Some of her sisters were white in the face. Hetty alone seemed to ignore the man's presence, and gazed over the fields towards Epworth.
"Will you not take something, my good father?" said the princess to Rodin, as she pointed to the splendid sideboard. "Thank you, madame, I have eaten my radish already this morning." "My secretary, Abbe Berlini, who was present at your repast, was, indeed, much astonished at your reverence's frugality," said the prelate: "it is worthy of an anchorite."
"By your reverence's leave;" and with this he went upstairs. Then Ruiten said "Sir, I cannot conceal my admiration that you, being so young a man, should have so loyal a spirit. I am Ruiten, the chief priest of this temple, who am engaged in praying for the recovery of my lord. Pray what is your name?" "My name, sir, is Itô Sôda, and I am serving in the infantry of Nabéshima.
She hurried to the sick-room, entered against the protest of the friends who were weeping around, and with out a word to any one with her strong hands dragged his reverence's bed to the middle of the floor, and with the exact copy of his very gestures and voice marched around the bed, repeating the sonorous and well-remembered Latin phrase, "If you die, you die; and if you live, you live."
"My lord prior," said the Duke, addressing the Dominican, "we will for a moment pray your reverence's absence. The King and I have that to say to the Prince which must have no further audience, not even yours." The Dominican bowed and withdrew.
"Pardon, your Reverence," she said with slightly acidulous deprecation, "but thanks to the Blessed Virgin and your Reverence's teaching, the text is but gibberish to me and I did but glance at the pictures." "Much evil may come in with the eye," said the priest sententiously, "as I will presently show thee.
"Did Davy never see a mischievous boy fidgeting at prayers?" asked the Doctor, who was nearer than she thought. "If so, he has been luckier than I have been." There was a laugh, out of deference to the clergyman, but the old woman held to her point. "Begging your Reverence's pardon, sir, there be more in this than we knows.
It all began with the squire's selling the village, and with the railway and the Germans coming here. Then Josel set everyone against me, because I had been selling fowls and other things to the surveyors; even now he is doing his best to... 'But why does everyone go to Josel for advice? interrupted the priest. 'To whom is one to go, begging your Reverence's pardon?
Ruiten looked on with admiration; and the young man, when he had made an end of his prayer, was going away; but the priest stopped him, calling out to him "Sir, I pray you to tarry a little: I have something to say to you." "At your reverence's service. What may you please to want?" "Pray be so good as to step up here, and have a little talk."
Do you think I am going away on my own business, or amusement, while you are here? To the devil with the thought! begging your reverence's pardon. No, I am going in search of Jacquelina.
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