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He may not feel inclined to enlist the favor of this or that particular saint, but he usually has a rosary hidden away somewhere in his vest pocket and a scapular around his neck, or in his pocket, as a last extreme.
He was dressed like the fathers in a white robe and a black scapular; only at the end of a violet cord he bore on his breast an abbot's cross of ivory, in the centre of which, under a round glass, some relics were inserted. He gave his hand to Durtal and begged him to sit down. Then he asked if the food seemed to be enough for him.
"He is safe enough, your reverence. Wasn't he telling me while your reverence was having your breakfast that if he fell down he would go straight to Heaven, and he opened his shirt and showed me he was wearing the scapular of the Holy Virgin." And Biddy began to advocate a sale of scapulars. "A sale of scapulars will not finish my church.
But as I fell in at the rear of the procession and looked back, the figure of the young Cuban, who was no longer a part of the world of Santa Clara, was asleep in the wet grass, with his motionless arms still tightly bound behind him, with the scapular twisted awry across his face, and the blood from his breast sinking into the soil he had tried to free.
By the scapular upon me, if I had known how you'd turn out, the sorra carry the ring ever you'd put on my finger!" "Father," said Connor, "I must be disobedient to you in this at all events. It's plain you'll do nothing for us; so there's no use in sayin' anything more about it. I have no manes of supportin' her, an' I swear I'll never bring her to poverty.
I got a scapular, too, that I might be strengthened to keep my holy promise; for you didn't come to me within the time. This is it in my hand. It is now on me. The VOW IS MADE AND I AM MISERABLE FOB EVER!" Denis sobbed and wrung his hands, whilst tears, intensely bitter, fell from his eyes. "Oh, Susan!" he exclaimed, "what have you done? Miserable! Oh you have ruined me utterly!
I have your charm around my neck, and all the pictures, and the luck-bringing cat, and the scapular, and the love you give me to keep me well and bring us soon together. That is the one thing I want. God bless you both, Hope's dad and your husband. November 26th. DEAR HEART: I am off tonight for Salonica.
He had, of course, left his cowl, or ample-sleeved singing gown, in the sacristy on leaving the church, and was in his black frock girded with the leather belt, and the scapular over it, hanging to the ground before and behind. His hood, Christopher noticed, was creased and flat as if he were accustomed to sit back at his ease.
The chance came; he ducked for the doorway, but a long arm shot out and clutched at his neck, snapping the amulet-string and closing on the amulet. 'Give it me. O, give it me. Is it lost? Give me the papers. The words were in English the tinny, saw-cut English of the native-bred, and the Chaplain jumped. 'A scapular, said he, opening his hand. 'No, some sort of heathen charm.
Pinned to her clothes striped Eastern things, and that kind of crinkled silk stuff they weave in Crete and Cyprus was a piece of parchment, a scapular we thought at first, but which was found to contain only the name Dionea Dionea, as they pronounce it here. The question was, Could such a name be fitly borne by a young lady at the Convent of the Stigmata?
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