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"Friend," said the Sub-Prior, "believe not that I will do to the Father Abbot the indignity of delivering such an errand. Think'st thou the goods of the church were bestowed upon her by holy princes and pious nobles, now dead and gone, to be consumed in revelry by every profligate layman who numbers in his train more followers than he can support by honest means, or by his own incomings?
Junior branches from Hohenzollern, as from other families, sought a career in that chivalrous devout Brotherhood now and then; one pious Burggraf had three sons at once in it; he, a very bequeathing Herr otherwise, settled one of his mansions, Virnsperg, with rents and incomings, on the Order.
Pretty presences in the tie-backs of the period were seen to flit before the home of virtuous poverty, hungering for any chance sight of him which his outgoings or incomings might give.
At last, finding their incomings not so large as they expected, they took next to housebreaking, in which they had found somewhat better luck.
His face was set steadily ahead a plain face showing the marks of his hard earlier life, and yet marked with a sort of high beauty. "The trouble with people who are unhappy, Mister," he said, "is that they won't try God." I could not answer my companion. There seemed, indeed, nothing more to be said. All my own speculative incomings and outgoings how futile they seemed compared with this!
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