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Benet's with a staff and his tall mitre, and a lamb in his arms; and he stared at it and gnashed his teeth at it as he tramped in; and then came the others, all like bishops, all in mass-vestments or cloth cut to look like them; and then at the end came a dog that belonged to one of them, well-trained, with the Popish Host in his mouth, made large and white, so that all could see what it was.
These articles comprised five sets of altar vessels, five sets of mass-vestments, made of a stuff woven of all the liturgical colours together, a dozen books, a box of medals, another of Agnus Deis little wax medallions stamped with the figure of a Lamb supporting a banner a bunch of beads, and a heavy little square package of very thin altar-stones.
He was taken this morning in his mass-vestments; and is in the Marshalsea." Lady Maxwell's lips moved a little; but no sound came. "He was betrayed, madam, by a friend. He and thirty other Catholics were taken all together at mass." Then Lady Maxwell spoke; and her voice was dead and hard. "The friend, sir! What was his name?" "The traitor's name, madam, is Anthony Norris."
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