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They shall now have the tale of a mendicant. A specimen of city rhetoric is given in the shoeblack; the country mendicant's eloquence is of a totally different species. Perhaps the reader may wish to see as well as hear the petitioner. At first view you might have taken him for a Spaniard.
They knew, however, that O'Donnel, the Rapparee, was a good authority on the subject, and the discovery of the pretended mendicant's imposture was a proof of it.
"Sir Arthur, let me bring in the messenger of good luck, though he is but a lame one. "Ye owe it o' to puir Robie that drave me; puir fallow," said the beggar, "he doubts he's in disgrace wi' my leddy and Sir Arthur." Robert's repentant and bashful face was seen over the mendicant's shoulder.
When she called him, and dropped her little gift into his mendicant's bowl, he had indeed lifted his fan before his face, yet not quickly enough; and the penally of that fault had followed him a thousand leagues, pursued after him even into the strange land to which he had come to hear the words of the Universal Teacher.
Each family and shop is supplied with a quantity of small rolls of bread, specially baked for the purpose, and one of which is nearly always given to the applicant on that day, so the mendicant's bag becomes full of rolls.
He was received in the vehicle, by Mrs Wilfer, as if admitted to the honour of assisting at a funeral in the family, and she then issued the order, 'Onward! to the Mendicant's menial. 'I wish to goodness, Ma, said Lavvy, throwing herself back among the cushions, with her arms crossed, 'that you'd loll a little. 'How! repeated Mrs Wilfer. 'Loll! 'Yes, Ma.
"In whom, the Heavenly virtues do unite, Serenely fair, in glowing colors bright, The shivering mendicant's attire, The stranger's friend, the orphan's sire, Benevolent and mild; The guide of youth, The light of truth, By all condignly styl'd." A gentleman having applied for a transcript of this interesting document for his daughter, Mr.
And had Hatim Tayi, who dwelt in the desert, come to live in a city, he would have been overwhelmed with the importunities of mendicants, and they would have torn the clothes from his back: Look not towards me, lest thou should draw the eyes of others, for at the mendicant's hand no good can be expected." He said: "I pity their condition." I replied: "Not so; but you envy them their property."
It is just here that a potent cause of the Mendicant's fall is to be found. He helped to dig his own grave. Having elevated monasticism to the zenith of its power, the Mendicant orders, like all the other monastic brotherhoods, entered upon their shameful decline.
While he was speaking they were accosted by a man upon crutches, who, telling them in a broken voice that he had a wife and twelve infant children dependent on his support, supplicated a little charity. Popanilla was about to empty part of his pocketfuls into the mendicant's cap, but his companion repressed his unphilosophical facility.
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