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Updated: June 21, 2025
And when he read the Prince's proclamation, and saw the rewards offered, in amounts undreamt of, he shivered; not, as he told the Hegumen, from horror at the crime; still less from fear that the multitude might blunder on discovery; and least of all from apprehension of betrayal from his assistants, for, with exception of the cistern-keeper, they were all in flight, and a night's journey gone.
"I will accompany thee." Sergius stopped while the young man went to the cot, removed his hat and knelt, saying, "Thy blessing, father." The Hegumen laid a hand on the petitioner's head.
My house is always open to them." After telling her how glad he was for the permission to address her in a style usual in his country, he moved to depart, but she detained him. "Stay a moment. To-day I had not time to deal as I wished with the charges the Hegumen prefers against me.
"The violence with which he denounced me was the chief argument in his favor. But God is good. The Emperor, the Patriarch, and the Princess Irene remain steadfast. Against them the Hegumen will be slow in proceeding to my expulsion. I am not afraid. I will go on doing what I think right. Time and patience are good angels to the unjustly accused.
James' was suddenly lifted up, and borne forward to within a few feet of the gate, and the Hegumen, standing in front of it, cried out: "Serenity, the preacher is a heretic! I denounce" He could get no further; the multitude sprang to foot howling. The Princess Irene, and the women in the galleries, also arose, she pale and trembling.
Withal, however, the monk was uncomfortable. The words of his Hegumen pursued him. Should he tell the Princess? Assailed by doubts, he followed her to the lookout on the edge of the promontory. Seating herself, she glanced over the wide field of water below; from the vessels there, she gazed across to Asia; then up at the sky, full to its bluest depth with the glory of day.
Having divested the superior of his robes, and, gently as he could, assisted him to lay his spent body on the narrow cot serving for couch, he then received the blessing. "Thou art a good son, Sergius," the Hegumen said, with some cheer. "Thou dost strengthen me.
There were present officers of the army and navy, members of the Court, the Patriarch, a number of the Clergy Hegumen, as they are called and the Princess Irene, with a large suite of highborn ladies married and unmarried. His Majesty was the Sun of the occasion, the Princess was the Moon.
By and by the bell called him in, and thenceforward he was occupied in the kitchen or at the elder's elbow. In brief, he knew nothing of the occurrence which had so overwhelmed the merchant and the Prince of India. The Hegumen sat on a broad armless chair, very pale and weak so poorly, indeed, that the brethren had excused him from chapel duties.
A little more than a hundred years ago it was in the reign of Andronicus III. one Barlaam, a Hegumen, like myself, was sent to Italy by the Emperor with a proposal of union; but Benedict the Pope resolutely refused to entertain the proposition, for the reason that it did not contemplate a final arrangement of the question at issue between the Churches. Was he not right?" Sergius assented.
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