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In the distance their occupants gave the illusion of cowled figures, the Indian women close wrapped in their shawls, dropping their heads modestly or turning them aside as their customs commanded them to do on encountering strangers.
So that when, passing through the narrow cloister and out upon the grassy terrace, I saw another cowled brother standing with folded hands profiled against the sky, in admirable harmony with the scene, I questioned his knowing the uses for which he is still most precious.
There was some debate about ringing the college-bell, but it was agreed that it would cause too much alarm. The Natural Philosophy professor came forth in curious trim, and his household and ours joined in the road. One lady was in her nightcap, another with a handkerchief tied over her head, while we were cowled in cloaks. The sky was now resplendent.
And you, Fra Alexo and these cowled fiends that do your evil work, I take you to witness, one and all, that I, Richard Brandon, Knight banneret of Kent, do now, henceforth and for ever, renounce and abjure the oath you wrung from my coward flesh by your devilish tortures. Come, do to my body what ye will, but my soul aye, my soul belongs to God not to the Church of Rome!
It is a matter to be settled between me and my government, and as far as it affects my person is of no consequence now. You will destroy the compact." "Nine minutes!" said Mr. Grimm monotonously. Again the babel broke out. "Do we understand that you want to see the compact?" one of the cowled men asked suddenly of Mr. Grimm as he turned. "No, I don't want to see it. I'd prefer not to see it."
"Myself, the vice-president" pointing to the cripple "and yonder gentleman" designating the cowled and masked figure of Maximilian, who stood near me. "Could I have a private conference with you?" he asked. "Yes," replied the president, somewhat eagerly; "come this way." All four moved to a side door, which seemed to lead into another subterranean chamber; the cripple carried a torch.
A hurried mutter of prayer sounded along the arches; cowled figures knelt in the stalls of the choir, and on the steps of the high altar a priest in pontifical vestments celebrated mass.
Vaguely I discerned an incredible figure like that of a tall cowled monk, towering over me. I struggled to retain consciousness there was a rush of feet ... the throb of a motor. It stimulated me that sound! I must get to the telephone and cause the yellow car to be intercepted.
What appears to have raised the fraternity to this enthusiastic anticipation of the canonization, officially announced at Westminster in 1173, was the discovery that Becket had on beneath his outer robes, and the many other garments he wore, the black cowled cloak of the Benedictines, and next to his skin a hair-cloth shirt of unusual roughness.
For a moment this cowled figure stood motionless, dropping huge masses of metal from its shoulders, and then it began to uncoil a dense head of smoke. The people had blown it up, aeroplane and all! As suddenly a second flash and grey shape sprang up from the Norwood stage. And even as he stared at this came a dead report; and the air wave of the first explosion struck him.
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