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But perhaps the happiest of all was Brother Walter, who though still a probationer was now the senior probationer, a status which afforded him the most profound satisfaction and gave him a kindly feeling toward Mark who was the cause of promotion. "And the Reverend Father has promised me that I shall be clothed as a postulant on August 10th when Brother Lawrence is to be clothed as a novice.
'Well, I asked, 'Have you slept it off whatever it was? 'No, he said, 'let me tell you about it. He began to gasp and splutter. Just then another postulant came up, making for the bath-room door. 'Afterwards! I said, 'After breakfast. And I vanished into the bath-room. It was probably Carraway, I thought, that had left a little collection of soaps in that bath-room.
Having placed this on the table, with a bottle of beer the postulant had led me to hope for coffee and milk, but there was evidently no escape from malt liquor here he withdrew to a little office close by where he was wont to perform the daily duty of keeping the cheese accounts of the monastery.
And then Catherine again seemed to be engulfed in some deep joy, out of which she roused herself with difficulty. When her postulant left the room, the Reverend Mother wrote to Pat Phelan, asking him to come next morning with his cart to fetch Catherine. And next morning, when the lay-sister told Catherine that he was waiting for her, the Reverend Mother said:
I cannot deny, however, that in that moment of enthusiasm and loyalty we were rather disposed to find extraordinary merits in commonplace painters. We knew well enough that a feeble and incompetent disciple of Cézanne was just as worthless as a feeble and incompetent disciple of anyone else but, then, was our particular postulant so feeble after all?
Batts' departure, then, he did not make the attempt, but sat before the fire, dull and depressed, and in danger of relapsing into the troubled thoughts from which his railroad companion had extricated him. When, then, at the end of half an hour, a new knock was heard at the door, he admitted the postulant with a calm indifference, as if fortune had now done her worst, and he had nothing to fear.
The postulant fetched me, as he had promised, and he led me through a labyrinth of passages to the church. Although the building was almost in darkness, I could see that it was in the Pointed style, and that it was marked by a cold elegance befitting its special purpose.
Early in the year 1789 Dolores entered the convent of the Carmelites in Arles, not as a postulant for she did not wish to devote herself to a religious life but as a boarder, which placed a barrier between her and Philip for the time being, but left her free to decide upon her future. Her departure filled Philip with despair. The death of Dolores could not have caused him more intense sorrow.
Becoming more confidential, he told me that what was most difficult to be borne by those in his position was the rule of absolute submission and obedience. I had not been at the table long, when this postulant glided out of the room, saying: 'I will see if there is a way of getting another bottle of beer.
Lawrence appealed to him by their fitness to the occasion, Gold is tried in the fire: and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. V. The Righteous shall grow as a lily. R. He shall flourish for ever before the Lord. Mark concerned himself less with his own reception as a postulant.
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