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He moved his hand slightly. The sister saw his lips tremble. She bent low. "Who seeks confession, absolution?" he whispered. "I am a priest." "You are wounded, dying, father." "How can I die better than shriving a fellow sinner?" That was true. The heroic woman turned to the man who still kept up his monotonous appeal. "The man next to you," she said, "dying like you, is a priest."
However, neither the real courage of the defenders, nor their dallying with the black art, helped them any. King Christian stormed the town at the head of his army and took it. The burgomaster hid in the church, disguised as a priest, and pretended to be shriving some women when the crash came, but it did not save him.
But it is scarcely possible that any such trace should remain in the mind of the hypocrite who, during many years, is constantly going through what he considers as the mummery of preaching, saying mass, baptizing, shriving. When an ecclesiastic of this sort mixes in the contests of men of the world, he is indeed much to be dreaded as an enemy, but still more to be dreaded as an ally.
Eve who seeks shriving, a dry rag for her back, a morsel for her lips, and fire to warm her, which in the Name of Christ and of charity she prays you will not refuse to her." So she spoke, and laughed recklessly.
What but a tragedy could it be to a man bred at Douay and reared on Greek, and now condemned to live in loneliness and squalor among unlettered, unwashed creatures; to one who, banned by the law, moved by night, and lurked in some hiding-place by day, and, waking or sleeping, was ever in contact with the lawless and the oppressed, the wretched and the starving whose existence was spent in shriving, christening, burying among the hills and bogs?
Canst thou carry that." I said I could, but I thought that there was an ill lie behind his words. "Hist, good lad, what is thy name?" said he. "Nigel de Bessin, nephew of the Vicomte of St. Sauveur," I answered. He pondered and gazed at me curiously. "Ay, well I knew thy grandsire, the old vicomte," said he. "And thine uncle has had of me other gifts than shriving."
The sponge of the slate had wiped off their little marks. No one would ever trace them. They would find no confessional and no shriving, for their way back to that underworld of devil-fed minds, out of which they had emerged to do ruin in a country which had never harmed them, but which on the contrary had welcomed them and fed them in their want.
Inside the hour the silent gray wagon train held on, leaving the waters to give shriving. The voice of the river rose and fell mournfully behind them in the changing airs. "I knowed hit!" said old Jim Bridger, now falling back from the lead and breaking oft' his Indian dirge. "I knowed all along the Snake'd take somebody she does every time.
Everywhere priests were busy confessing and shriving the soldiers. The sound of the furbishing of arms mingled with the strains of religious service. At the dawn of the next day both hosts were drawn up in battle array. The great struggle was about to begin.
But is there any way of saving this guilty wretch, with his crimes unconfessed? First confession, then shriving of the penitent. Limit the mercy of Heaven? Is the Infinite compassion contingent upon finite fellow tactics? Sir Donald and Esther felt more solicitude for the sick man's recovery than in further revelations. Next day they are early callers at the hospital.
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