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He first spoke of this to Pater Bonifácius, who was greatly shocked and upset to hear such casual news of Andor's death, and it was only bit by bit that he succeeded in dragging fuller particulars out of the sick man. It seems that when the lad's regiment was out in Bosnia there was an outbreak of cholera among the troops. Andor was one of those who succumbed.
But no one, remembering how Fisher and More had died in the preceding year, can doubt but that the good old man was very willing to be gone, away from changed faces and changed ways though Bonifacius Amerbach and young Froben were as sons to him. Basel, for all her differences with him, buried Erasmus with great honours.
May Saint Benedictus of Nursja, Saint Maurus, Saint Bonifacius, Saint Benedictus of Aniane and also Jean of Tolomeia our patrons living in eternal glory, give you health and happiness, and bless you seven times a day during the remainder of your life."
It seemed as if it could not all be true, as if Elsa was even now waiting for him to go out for a walk under the acacia trees as she had done on that morning five years ago. Even now he pulled the bell as he had done then, and now as then Pater Bonifácius himself came to the door.
She thought of the many sins which in her innocent life she had committed, and for which Pater Bonifácius had given her absolution; perhaps if she had been better been more affectionate with her mother, more forbearing with her father, the good God would have allowed her to have this happiness in full which now appeared so shadowy.
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