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In movement, order, dress, like their predecessors in the march Hegumen with their followers in gray, black and white hands palm to palm prayerfully chanting sometimes better, sometimes worse never a look upward but always down, as if Heaven were a hollow in the earth, an abyss at their feet, and they about to step into it. The Prince was beginning to tire.
"I am but a student," Sergius replied; "still to my imperfect perception the Unity of the Church was certainly accomplished." "In law, yes," said the Hegumen, with difficulty rising to a sitting posture "yes, but it remained to make the accomplishment binding on the consciences of the signatories. Hear now what was done.
"No," he returned. "His Majesty sent for our Hegumen to come to the Chapel. The good man took me with him, his book and torch bearer; but when we arrived, the Emperor had passed in and closed the door, and I could only imagine him on his knees alone in the room, except as the relics about him were company."
Besides this the young monk had another incentive to action. In the colloquy overheard by him the chief speaker described himself a son of the Hegumen of the St. James'. The St. James'! His own Brotherhood! His own Hegumen! Could a wicked son have been born to that excellent man?
"Thou knowest I regard the Princess Irene as my little mother. I wish to go and see her." "At Therapia?" "Yes, Father." The Hegumen averted his eyes, and by the twitching of the fingers clasped upon his breast exposed a trouble at work in the depths of his mind. "My son," he at length said, "I knew the father of the Princess Irene, and was his sympathizer.
Here the audience was stirred uncontrollably; many fell forward upon their faces; others wept, and the nave resounded with rejoicing. In one quarter alone there was a hasty drawing together of men with frowning brows, and that was where the gonfalon of the Brotherhood of the St. James' was planted. The Hegumen, in the midst of the group, talked excitedly, though in a low tone.
He was scarcely in condition to think; yet he comprehended the despairing cry of the Hegumen, Oh, my God! whither are we drifting? The possibilities of the scheme flew about him darkly, like birds in a ghastly twilight. He had studied the oppositions to religion enough to appreciate the attractive power there was for youth in the pursuit of pleasure.
It implies a relation of trust without embarrassment, and a promise of mutual faithfulness warranting me to call you in return, Sergius, and sometimes 'dear Sergius. ... Yes, I think it better that you go back immediately. The Hegumen will want to speak to you in the morning about what you have seen and heard to-day. My boatmen can take you down, and arrived there, they will stay the night.
The Brotherhood of the St. James' was powerful, and it would certainly resent any humiliation their venerable Hegumen might sustain through the ignominious exposure of his son. In great uncertainty, and not a little confusion, the commissionate body hied from the Princess Irene to the cistern.
"Thou mayst try her with a request; but remember, my son" the Hegumen accompanied the warning with a menacious glance "remember proselyting is the tangible overt act in heresy which the Church cannot overlook.... To proceed. The Princess' doctrines are damnatory of the Nicene; if allowed, they would convert the Church into a stumbling-block in the way of salvation.
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