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The monk came to my aid, and by dint of driving the bar between the gutter and the lead I succeeded in loosening it, and then, heaving at it with our shoulders, we beat it up till the opening was wide enough. On putting my head out through the hole I was distressed to see the brilliant light of the crescent moon then entering in its first quarter.
The king's words regarding the wounded pride of Monk had not inspired D'Artagnan with a small portion of apprehension. The lieutenant had had, all his life, the great art of choosing his enemies; and when he had found them implacable and invincible, it was when he had not been able, under any pretense, to make them otherwise. But points of view change greatly in the course of a life.
But here the supply of character was liberal and the variety of scenery extraordinary. We cannot judge the innovation fully now, but let anyone turn to the theatrical properties of Godwin and Holcroft, of Mrs. Radcliffe and 'Monk' Lewis, and he will begin to have a better idea of what Guy Mannering must have been to its first readers.
"To an affiliated member of the first or second year," replied the physician, looking inquiringly at the monk, "I should say a fever that may be cured." "But to me?" said the Franciscan. The physician hesitated.
I see that I have fallen into the hands of a band of thieves. If so, I can buy myself off with a ransom." Then turning to the monk at the altar he asked, "How much do you demand, captain?" A threatening murmur greeted these insolent words. The monk at the altar stretched out his hand. "You are mistaken, Sir John.
Austin the monk was sent to England by Pope Gregory the Great, to endeavour the conversion of the Saxons, about the year 596, and being favourably received by Ethelbert, then King of Kent, who soon after became his proselyte, was by the authority of the Roman see constituted Archbishop of Canterbury, the capital of King Ethelbert's dominions.
"That is right; but we shall want lights to guide us in the vaults." Monk turned round. "Ah! I thought Digby was following us!" said he. "So much the better; he will procure us what we want." "Yes, general, there is a man yonder who has been walking behind us for some time." "Digby!" cried Monk. "Digby! come here, if you please."
There stood a monk, actually, though we might have wandered all day and come out on the banks of the Dnyepr without finding him, had we gone in without a guide. Beside him, denuded of its glass bell, stood one of the miraculous skulls.
When the oppression of the heat and sulphurous vapor became too dreadful to be borne, the monk retraced his way and climbed with difficulty up the steep sides of the crater, till he gained the summit above, where a comparatively free air revived him.
He claims in it to be the last of the white-robed Guardians of the Sacred Tree, the fruit of which none of the black-robed, no 'son of a monk, shall ever enjoy.
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