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Updated: June 12, 2025
Then they went, and, creeping through the bushes to the path, wandered about awhile among the revellers and came to the guest-house safely. Once more it was night, and high above the mountain fortress of Masyaf shone the full summer moon, lighting crag and tower as with some vast silver lamp.
"We were in quarters, aboard the Aldebaran and in the guest-house at the airport," Kormork reported. "We were attacked, fifteen minutes ago, by a mob. We took ten minutes beating them off, and five more getting here.
Therefore, the Augusta, who does not like any man about her to care for other women, thinks I may make love to you with safety. So I prayed for leave from my duties on the guard this evening that I might sup with your father in the guest-house, and see what I could learn from one or both of you." "Love makes you clever, Olaf. But hearken.
The guest-house opposite them was dark, except for one window in the upper floor that glowed and faded with the light of the fire that had been kindled within an hour or two before. Sir James took his son suddenly by the arm. "And you, Chris " he said. "I shall stay here, father."
Francis was used to say: 'Courtesy shall be the ornament of my sons, as the flowers bedeck the hill-sides." But Satan said again: "Good Father, inform me at the least of a guest-house, where I may pass the night honestly." Fra Giovanni replied: "Go, mistress, to the House of St. Damian, where dwell the poor ladies of Our Lord.
The primitive-looking palm-leaved thatched huts were picturesquely situated an eighth of a mile or so from the beach, under the shade of a grove of lofty cocoanut-trees. The chief man, with a party of his followers, came out to meet them, and invited them into the principal hut, used apparently as a guest-house.
Besides the increase of numbers there had been considerable additions made to the fabric of the Abbey, if such a word as fabric may be applied to matchboard, felt, and corrugated iron. Mention has already been made of the new Guest-house, which accommodated not only soldiers invited to spend their furloughs at the Abbey, but also tramps who sought a night's lodging.
No woman has ever crossed the inner threshold, or shall ever cross it, unless a queen, English or foreign, should claim her privilege. Therefore, if a woman records here the slighter things visible of the monastic life, it is only because she was not admitted to see more than beautiful courtesy and friendliness were able to show her in guest-house and garden.
There were footsteps on the stairs; and Sir James came in. He came straight across to his son and sat down by him. Chris looked at him. The old man nodded. "Yes, my son," he said, "they are at it. Nothing is to be left, but the cloister and guest-house. The church is to be down in a week they say." Chris looked at him dully. "All?" he said. "All the church, my son."
I go out to exercise this company in the arts of war, but after sundown you shall come to my palace, and I will see your wares and hear your songs. Till then, farewell. Officer," he added to a captain who had followed him, "take these Egyptians and their camels and give them a lodging in the guest-house, where they will not be molested, and at sundown bring them to me."
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