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'You forget don't you? They've excommunicated Father Benecke. 'My word! Yes! I forgot. My chief was awfully excited about it. Well, I'm sure he's well quit of them! said the young man fervently. 'They're doing their level best to pull this country about everybody's ears. And they'll be the first to suffer thank heaven! if they do upset the coach. And so it was Benecke that brought Manisty here?
But Marie sometimes spoke of it to Lucy with expressions which terrified one who had never known illness except in her mother. Meanwhile Eleanor was thinking 'Something will bring him here. He is writing to Father Benecke Father Benecke to him. Some accident will happen any day, any hour. Well let him come! Her hands stiffened under her shawl that Lucy had thrown round her.
Yet Benecke was an outcast, and this youth was already on the ladder of promotion. When he departed the Contessa threw up her hands. 'And that man is just appointed Advent Preacher at one of the greatest churches in Rome! Then she checked herself. 'At the same time, Madame, she said, looking a little stiffly at Eleanor, 'we have learned priests many of them. Eleanor hastened to assent.
She began to walk up and down the room, with her hands behind her. 'I will never, never forgive Father Benecke, she said presently, in a low, determined voice. 'What do you think he had to do with it? 'I know, said Lucy. 'He brought Mr. Manisty here. He sent him up the hill this morning to see me. It was the most intolerable interference and presumption. Only a priest could have done it.
I humbly confess that I shall always henceforward think differently of women, and of the relations that men and women may hold to one another. But then, madame He paused. Eleanor could see his hand trembling on his knee. She raised herself on her elbow. 'Father Benecke! you have something to say to me! He hurried on. 'The other day you allowed us to change the roles. You had been my support.
Manisty was either moodily silent, or engaged in discussions with the strange priest, Father Benecke, as to certain incidents connected with a South German University, which had lately excited Catholic opinion. He scarcely spoke to any of the ladies least of all to Eleanor Burgoyne. She and Aunt Pattie must needs make all the greater efforts to carry off the festa.
Manisty had forgotten his book! Careless and hasty how well she knew the trait! But he would miss it he would come back. She stood up and tried to collect her thoughts. If he was here, he was with Father Benecke. So the priest had betrayed the secret he had promised Mrs. Burgoyne to keep? No, no! that was impossible! It was chance unkind, unfriendly chance.
After ten minutes, she remembered her duties with a start, and hastily crossing the glass passage, she returned to her post. All was just as she had left it. She listened at Miss Alice's door. Not a sound was to be heard; and she resumed her sewing. Meanwhile Manisty and Eleanor were busy with Father Benecke.
At the same time the village could not openly assail the ladies' friend without running the risk of driving the ladies themselves from Torre Amiata. And this clearly would have been a mere wanton slight to a kind Providence. Even the children understood the situation, and Father Benecke now took his walks unmolested by anything sharper than sour looks and averted faces.
"Economy" "theocracy" "aristocracy." The Greek came out like a child's lesson. He was not always sure; he corrected himself once or twice; and at the end he threw back his head with a little natural pride. But the ladies avoided looking either at him or each other. Eleanor thought of Father Benecke; of the weight of learning on that silver head.
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