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This idea of winning over a pagan soldier to the Christian Church as the price of his ransom from famine and death in the castle to which his direst enemy had driven him this enemy himself, the instrument thus of so rude a mode of conversion, to be the sponsor of the new communicant's religious profession was one in keeping, it is true, with the spirit of the times, but still it is one which, under the circumstances of this case, only a mind of great originality and power would have conceived of or attempted to carry into effect.
The book which he used for these visits was an old neglected book written by saint Alphonsus Liguori, with fading characters and sere foxpapered leaves. A faded world of fervent love and virginal responses seemed to be evoked for his soul by the reading of its pages in which the imagery of the canticles was interwoven with the communicant's prayers.
Presently Lillie chanced to glance at the little communicant's white gown, which, though fresh and dainty as loving hands could make it, was unmistakably well worn, and in some places had evidently been carefully darned; indeed, her sharp eyes discovered even a tiny tear in the skirt, as if Annie had unwittingly put her fingers through it when searching for the pocket.
His father resumed, impetuously: "How can I go on in close relations with a man my right hand in the estate almost more than my agent associated with all the church institutions and charities a communicant secretary of the communicant's guild! our friend and helper in all our religious business who has been the head and front of the campaign against immorality in this village responsible, with us, for many decisions that must have seemed harsh to poor things in trouble who yet now proposes, himself, to maintain what we can only regard what everybody on this estate has been taught to regard as an immoral connection with a married woman!
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