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"Yes he will, we will say we are all going to Saint Frideswide's shrine to say our prayers." "The dice before we go." "Throw against me," said Hugh to our Martin. "I cannot, I never played in my life." "Then the sooner you begin the better. "Here, roaring Ralph, this innocent young acolyte says he has never touched the dice." "Then the sooner he begins the better. "Come, stake a mark against me."
"All men loved him save one." "And who was that one?" "He sits to judge me." "Nay," cried the bishop, "we all beheld the reconciliation in St. Frideswide's church." "The king himself was warned not to trust to the reconciliation." "By whom?" "His brother sovereign." "Canute?" And here Edric perceptibly changed colour. "Even so."
Andrew's day drew near, when a small but select party of friends met together in an old mansion hard by St. Frideswide's Cathedral, at Oxenford, to enjoy the evening banquet.
I hold firm. Good-bye. That's the Cathedral bell." But Constance and Sorell, followed discreetly by Annette, departed first. Mrs. Mulholland stayed for a final word to the Master, before obeying the silver voice from St. Frideswide's tower. "To think of that girl being handed over to Ellen Hooper, just when all her love affairs will be coming on!
"This is the man who brought the like message to our earls," he said. "I was at Oxford, and saw him come. And the street then was full of armed men, as is ours tonight. Better go hence, lord, else you will be burnt out, as our men were when they went to avenge our lords' deaths, and were driven into St. Frideswide's Church."
As the usual procession of scholars and citizens returned from St. Frideswide's, a Jew suddenly burst from the group of his comrades in front of the synagogue, and snatching the crucifix from its bearer trod it under foot. But even in presence of such an outrage as this the terror of the Crown shielded the Jewry from any burst of popular indignation.
Frideswide's shrine on the ground that such recoveries of life and limb were quite as real as any that Frideswide ever wrought. Sickness and death in the prior's story avenge the saint on her blasphemer, but no earthly power, ecclesiastical or civil, seems to have ventured to deal with him. A more daring act of fanaticism showed the temper of the Jews even at the close of Henry the Third's reign.
"As the hart desireth the water brooks." "Then ask thyself what she would have thee do. Canst thou hope for the pardon of thine own grievous sins, unless thou dost first forgive all who have offended thee?" "I will try. See me again tomorrow, father." "I will do so: I remain at St. Frideswide's for a day or two." Wilfred understood the hesitation.
Yes, I was Edmund's enemy once; but perhaps you remember yesterday and the early mass at St. Frideswide's." "We do, we do," cried all but Elfwyn and Herstan; but they were utterly outvoted, and the order was given to the captain of the hus-carles to arrest Alfgar.
Frideswide's Nicholas Herford had asserted the truth of Wyclif's doctrines, and Courtenay ordered the Chancellor to silence him and his adherents on pain of being himself treated as a heretic.
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