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Amid the turmoil, the rent-farmer came up to Frazie, took her impudently by the arm, laughingly wished her proficiat with her pretty daughter and, after slyly looking about him for confirmation, said, half in earnest: "We're planting potatoes to-morrow at the Rent Farm, we shall want lots of hands; missie may as well come too." And with that he went back to his game of cards.
Afterwards take me for one of your own, for never yet was there any man that knew better how to take, lard, roast, and dress, yea, by G , to tear asunder and devour a hen, than I that am here: and for my proficiat I drink to all good fellows.
He began by reading out the notices in a snuffling tone: the intentions of the masses for the ensuing week; the names of those about to be married or lately deceased. Then he waited, cast his eyes over that level multitude of raised heads, pulled up his white sleeves and turned his face towards the children. His drawling voice wished them proficiat.
But again the shadow of the meaning smile was on the Bishop's face, and he said nothing; so the Dean looked wise and mysterious as he slapped the young pastor on the back and said: "Proficiat, God bless you! You have done well, and I am proud of you, but wait and listen." Then his voice dropped to a whisper. "I was talking to the Bishop about you." The dinner? Well, Anne excelled herself.
He turned round to the other side and, continuing with the same rise and fall in his voice, the same gestures of his thin right arm, with the flowing white sleeve, and the same movement of his sharp profile high up above the congregation, he began once more: "To you, fathers and mothers, I also wish a cordial proficiat; for you also this is a glad and memorable day.
Anthony, declared him heretic, and would have caused him to be burnt alive had it not been for Morgant, who, for his proficiat and other small fees, gave him nine tuns of beer. Well, said Pantagruel, reserve all these fair stories for another time, only tell us how the usurers are there handled.
And they pressed so hard upon him that he was constrained to rest himself upon the towers of Our Lady's Church. At which place, seeing so many about him, he said with a loud voice, I believe that these buzzards will have me to pay them here my welcome hither, and my Proficiat. It is but good reason. I will now give them their wine, but it shall be only in sport.
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