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Updated: May 14, 2025
He found that Brother Chad's convalescence had been seriously impeded in its later stages by the prospect of having to remain at the Abbey as guest-master, and though Mark was sorry to leave Aldershot he saw by the way the Tommies greeted their old friend that he was dear to their hearts. When after Christmas Brother Chad took the party back, Mark made up his mind that the right person was going.
He was a little confused how to open the question; at the first words the guest-master smiled. "The rule of Saint Benedict is formal," he said; "we must receive our guests as we receive our Lord Jesus Himself, that is to tell you that we cannot exchange our poor care for money." And when Durtal insisted, embarrassed,
And the guest-master walked quietly towards the swan. "Come," he said to the angry creature, who splashed him with water; and he held out his hand which the swan snapped. "See," said the monk, showing the mark of a red pinch printed on the flesh.
"How long does the meal last?" "Just half an hour." "Yes; and the cookery which we eat is delicate in comparison with that which is served to the monks," said the oblate. "I should lie if I were to affirm that we make good cheer," answered the guest-master. "Do you know that the hardest thing to bear, in the earlier time especially, is the want of seasoning in our dishes.
They take no trouble about their graves, and they salute each other silently, since they are forbidden to speak." "Then what am I to do if I need anything?" "The abbot, the confessor, and the guest-master have the right of conversing with the guests, you will have to do with them alone; the others will bow when you meet them, but if you speak to them they will not answer."
But he knows better now. But he says mass like a holy angel of God, and is a very devout man in all ways. But they are going soon." Dom Anthony fulfilled to perfection the ideal laid down for a guest-master in the Custumal.
The monk eyed him very keenly indeed a minute or two without speaking. This seemed a new type. "Come in and sit down a minute," he said. "I'll fetch the guest-master." It was a very plain little room in which Frank sat, and seemed designed, on purpose, to furnish no temptation to pilferers.
He was impervious to snubs, of which he received many from Brother George, and he had somehow managed to become a favourite of the Reverend Father, so that he had been appointed guest-master, a post that was always coveted, and one for which nobody felt Brother Nicholas was suited.
The monk said no more, but Durtal understood that he was observed, and that under his childlike aspect the guest-master would, where discipline was concerned, hold him in an iron grip. He was confirmed in this impression when at Vespers he noticed that the monk's first glance on entering the chapel was at him, but that day he felt so sore and broken that he cared but little.
Chris's thoughts had fled back to that summer evening long ago when he had knelt far down in the nave and watched the serried line of the black-hooded soldiers of God, and listened to the tramp of the psalmody, and longed to be of their company. Now the gallant regiment had dwindled to two, of which he was one, and the guest-master that had received him and encouraged him, the other.
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