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The Hegumen and his attendant were aroused. Both gazed at Demedes looking the same question. "I hesitate to tell you, my dear father, of the affair, it is so shocking. The chill of the first hearing has not left me. I am excited body and mind, and you know how faithfully I have tried to school myself against excitement it is unbecoming only the weak suffer it.
Is there no principle to which we can refer the matter no Christian principle? The Hegumen claims silence from you; on the other side, your conscience I would like to say preference impels you to speak a word of warning for the benefit of your patroness. There, now, we have both the dispute and the disputants. Is it not so?" Sergius bowed his head.
Or rather, to men in authority, like the Hegumen of your Brotherhood, what is the highest of all crimes?" He looked at her in mute supplication. "I will tell you HERESY." Then, compassionating his suffering, she added: "My poor Sergius! I am not upbraiding you. You are showing me your soul. I see it in its first serious trial.... I will forget that I am the denounced, and try to help you.
"So," the Hegumen continued, "she hath gone the length of fabricating a creed for herself, and substituting it for that which is the foundation of the Church I mean the Creed transmitted to us from the Council of Nicaea." "Is the substitute in writing, Father?" "I have read it." "Then thou canst tell me whence she drew it."
While the venerable Chapel on the way up the heights of Blacherne was surrounded by the host of kneeling monastics, and the murmur of their prayers swept it round about like the sound of moaning breezes, a messenger found the Hegumen of the St. James' with the compliments of the Basileus, and a request that he come forward to a place in front of the door of the holy house.
Crossing herself, and again kissing the signature, she began the reading, which, as the hand was familiar to her, and the composition in the most faultless Greek of the period, was in nowise a perplexity. "BIELO-OSERO, 3d June, 1452. "From Hilarion, the Hegumen, to Irene, his well-beloved daughter. "Thou hast thought of me this longtime as at rest forever at rest with the Redeemer.
So I made him hold the lamp while I read.... The document was dated about A.D. 1300 a century and a half gone, and proved to be a formal report by the Patriarch to a council of Bishops and Hegumen.... Thou knowest, I am sure, the great cistern; not the Philoxenus, but the larger one, with an entrance west of Sta.
"By whose authority is this arrest renewed?" he demanded. "Our Hegumen hath so ordered." "It shall not be no, by the Mother of your Christ, it shall not be unless you bring me the written word of His Majesty making it lawful." "The Hegumen" "I have said it, and I carry a sword" the Count struck the hilt of the weapon with his mailed hand, so the clang was heard on the benches.
The Hegumen gave him in charge of the brethren; and at his signal, the gonfalon was raised and carried through the concourse, and out of one of the doors, followed closely by the Brotherhood. At the moment of starting, Sergius lifted his hands, and shouted so as to be heard above the confusion: "Bear witness, O Serenity and thou, O Emperor!
"Father," he remarked, calmly as possible, "I mind not the other sayings, the reports which go to the Princess' honor they are the tarnishments which malice is always blowing on things white because they are white but if it be not too trying to your strength, tell me more. Wherein is she a heretic?" Again, the gaunt fingers of the Hegumen worked nervously, while his eyes averted themselves.
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