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So Solomon prayed, and instead of golden crowns, they all received crowns of feathers; and ever since, senors, they live as merrily as crickets in an oven, and also have the honor of bearing the name of his most Catholic majesty King Solomon. Tita! fill the senor commandant's glass. Fray Gerundio, what are you whispering about down there, sir?"
Clarke's scheme of the Holy Trinity, &c. By Daniel Waterland. 2nd edit. Cambridge, 1719. Y aun en los dos Tratados que escribió acerca de la Justification, que es punto mas resvaladizo, en los principios que abrazó, no se separó de los teologos Catolicos; pero en algunas consecuencias que infirio, ya dió bastantemente á entender la mala leche que habia mamado. Fray. Gerundio. ii. 7. Chap.
Lucy Passmore, do you know that fellow also?" "No, sir," said Lucy. "Lucky for you, Fray Gerundio," said Will Cary; while the good friar hid his face in his hands, and burst into tears. Lucky it was for him, indeed; for he had been a pitying spectator of the tragedy.
"Ah," said one of the friars, "that you could be brought, senors, to render thanks for your miraculous preservation to her to whom alone it is due, Mary, the fount of mercies!" "We have done well enough without her as yet," said Amyas, bluntly. "The Lord raised up Nebuchadnezzar of old to punish the sins of the Jewish Church; and He has raised up these men to punish ours!" said Fray Gerundio.
"What is that, Fray Gerundio?" asked the bishop again. "I merely remarked, that it were well for the world if all mankind were to put up the same prayer as the hoopoes." "World, sir? What do you know about the world? Convert your Indians, sir, if you please, and leave affairs of state to your superiors. "A very worthy and pious man, but a poor peasant's son; and beside you understand.
Such an one was Fray Gerundio; a poor, mean, clumsy-tongued peasant's son, who never could put three sentences together, save when he waxed eloquent, crucifix in hand, amid some group of Indians or negroes. He was accustomed to such rebuffs as the bishop's; he took them for what they were worth, and sipped his wine in silence; while the talk went on.
"If you will confess," said Brimblecombe, whose heart was melting fast, "confess to the Lord, and He will forgive you. Even at the last moment mercy is open. Is it not, Fray Gerundio?" "It is, senor; it is, my lord," said Gerundio; but the bishop only clasped his hands over his head. "Then I am undone! All my money is stolen! Not a farthing left to buy masses for my poor soul!
"Hound! if your saints can really smuggle you up the back-stairs to heaven, they will do it without five minutes' more coaxing and flattering." Fray Gerundio and the condemned man alike stopped their ears at the blasphemy. "Oh, Fray Gerundio!" screamed the bishop, "pray for me. I have treated you like a beast. Oh, Fray, Fray!"
A man accustomed to cruelty, and firm in his fanaticism, he was as ready to endure suffering as to inflict it; repeating to himself the necessary prayers, he called Fray Gerundio to witness that he died, however unworthy, a martyr, in charity with all men, and in the communion of the Holy Catholic Church; and then, as he fitted the cord to his own neck, gave Fray Gerundio various petty commissions about his sister and her children, and a little vineyard far away upon the sunny slopes of Castile; and so died, with a "Domine, in manus tuas," like a valiant man of Spain.
"And where shall I be then? Ah, where? Fain would I rest, and fain depart. Tita! sling my hammock. Senors, you will excuse age and infirmities. Fray Gerundio, go to bed!" And the Dons rose to depart, while the bishop went on maundering, "Farewell! Life is short. Ah! we shall meet in heaven at last. And there are really no more pearls?" "Not a frail; nor gold either," said the intendant.
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