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"Your Majesty," he said, unusually regardless of the ancient salutation, "there is a great tumult in the city." The imperial countenance became stern. "This is a day of thanks to God for a great mercy; who dares profane it by tumult?" "I must speak from hearsay," the officer answered.... "The funeral of the Hegumen of the St. James took place at daylight this morning"
James', and they and their intimates filled it from the top seat to the bottom; and now directly the identity became assured, toward them, or rather to the Hegumen conspicuous in their midst, innumerable arms were outstretched, seconding the cry: "Save her! Save her! Let the lion be killed!" Easier said than done.
"This place is very public" he glanced at the people above them. "I will hear you here." "At your pleasure.... The Hegumen referred next to your going about publicly unveiled. While not positively wrong, he condemned the practice as a pernicious example; besides which there was a defiant boldness in it, he said, tending to make you a subject of discussion and indelicate remark."
"I have said it, and my sword says it. Go, tell thy Hegumen." Then Sergius spoke: "I pray you interfere not. The Heavenly Father who saved me this once is powerful to save me often." "Have done, sir monk," the Count returned, with increasing earnestness. "Did I not hear thee say the same in thy holy Sancta Sophia, in such wise that these deserved to cast themselves at thy feet?
I ask you to permit him to go with me." "Nay," said the Hegumen, "I will urge him to go." Sergius answered simply: "Not now. I am under penance, and to-day bound to the third breviary prayers. When they are finished, I will gladly go." "I am disappointed," Demedes rejoined. "But I must make haste."
The father superior or the patron in danger?" The Princess replied calmly, but with feeling: "It is not a supposition, Sergius." Though surprised, he returned: "Without it I could not have your decision first." "Thou, Sergius, art the distressed neophyte." He held his hands out to her: "Give me thy judgment." "The Hegumen of the St. James' is the accuser." "Be just, O Princess!
Oh, it is a quarrel, and a big one, involving Church and State, and the infallibility of our newly risen Jeremiah. Thus full-handed, thinkest thou in a suit the Prince of India against the venerable Hegumen of all the St. James', His Majesty will hesitate? Is thy opinion of him as a politician so uncomplimentary? Think again, I say think again!"
She arose, and passing through a doorway heavily draped with cloth, left him to the entertainment of the fountain. Returning soon, she placed a roll of paper in his hand. "There," she said, "is the creed which your Hegumen makes such a sin. It may be heresy; yet, God helping me, and Christ and the Holy Mother lending their awful help, I dare die for it. Take it, dear Sergius.
His sympathy with the venerable Hegumen, with whom mourning for the boy astray was incessant, and sometimes pathetic as the Jewish king's, gradually became a grief for the prodigal himself, and he revolved plans for his reformation. What happiness could he one day lead the son to the father, and say: "Your prayers and lamentations have been heard; see God's kiss of peace on his forehead!"
He kissed the hand fondly, and replied: "The clouds still hang low and dark over me; but my faith is not shaken; they will blow away; and in the meantime, dear little friend, the world is not all cheerless you love me." "Yes, I love you," she said, with childish simplicity. "The Brotherhood has elected a new Hegumen," he continued. "A good man, I hope."
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