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"We do indeed consider it most urgent, father, and we are sure that the duke will so regard it. We should not have walked well-nigh a hundred miles in two days and nights, and that almost without food, had we not deemed it so." "Brother Gregory," the prior said, "bid lay-brother Philip at once prepare three palfreys, and tell him he is to ride himself with these two Saxon youths to Rouen.
Garnache's face was gloomy and his eyes sad, for his thoughts were all of Valerie, and he was prey to a hundred anxieties regarding her. They gained the heights at last, and Rabecque got down to beat with his whip upon the convent gates. A lay-brother came to open, and in reply to Garnache's request that he might have a word with the Father Abbot, invited him to enter.
How Emlyn had been married off against her will to an aged partner whom she hated, and Thomas, who was set down as a fool, forced to serve the monastery as a lay-brother, a strong hind skilled in the management of cattle and such matters, but half crazy, as indeed it had suited him to feign himself to be.
Yes, not every day, but every now and then; two or three times a week: but you know ... quite nicely, properly, without making any noise; he was gayer than usual, that was all. But when he reached that point, though he was ordinarily as timid as a lay-brother, he became as bold as a gendarme, and he was very ... how shall I say?... very enterprising.
At sight of them both men fell silent, as in presence of the dead; and the Knight felt his heart grow cold with apprehension, as he received them from the Bishop's hand. They passed together through the doorway leading to the river terrace, and so down the lawn, under the arch, and into the courtyard. There Brother Philip waited, mounted, while another lay-brother held the Knight's horse.
On entering the gate, a lay-brother received me on his knees; and in a low and whispering voice informed me they were at vespers.
On his return, Butzbach was apprenticed to Aschaffenburg, to learn the trade of tailoring; and having mastered this, he procured for himself, in 1496, the position of a lay-brother in the Benedictine Abbey of Johannisberg in the Rheingau, opposite Bingen. His duties were manifold.
"There is nothing to prevent you or anybody else going to him that choose to do so nothing to prevent any one of those cattle doing so, for that matter. There is neither bolt nor latch; you can go into his chamber, if you are so minded," returned the lay-brother, rather surlily.
Failing in his desire to enter upon the sacerdotal life at Constantinople, he procured his admission as lay-brother at San Lazzaro, where all his remaining days were spent. He was but little learned; but he had great passion for poetry, and he was the author of some thirty small works on different subjects.
"A dreadful deed," he said, "for which one day you must answer to God and man." "For which we all must answer," corrected the Abbot, "down to the last lay-brother and soldier you as much as any of us, Brother, for were you not present at our quarrel?" "So be it, Abbot. Being innocent, I am ready. But that is not the end of it.
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