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Updated: May 19, 2025
It is well. I marvelled how my Odorik should have fallen by the soft Roman hand of yonder stripling; but thou art a worthy foe. What made the priestling thrust himself between me and my prey?" "His generous love," returned Verronax, as Lucius flung himself on his neck, crying "O my Verronax, why hast thou come? The bitterness of death was past! The gates were opening."
However, Bunce himself arrived shortly after, and informed Hob that since young folks always pried where they were least wanted, and my lord had stumbled incontinently on the anchoret's den, it was the holy man's will that he might come there whenever he chose. A pity and shame it was, but it would make him more than ever a mere priestling, ever hankering after books and trash!
'I have seen something of this world, she said over the crowded trays, 'and there are but two sorts of women in it those who take the strength out of a man and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this. Nay do not play the priestling with me. Mine was but a jest. If it does not hold good now, it will when thou takest the road again.
"All well!" boomed the half-brother, eying the unbound priest with unconcealed surprise. "Do any watch?" "Not one! The priests are in the temple; all who are not priests man the walls or rush here and there making ready." "And the priestling?" "Is where I left him." "Where? I said." "In the niche underneath the arch, where I trapped the High Priest!" "Are the horses fed and watered?" "Ha, sahib!"
It bounced against the shaft of a column, and then fell on the shaven head of a priestling, who seized it and tossed it back. The game was soon taken up, and before long, one tambourine after another was flying over the heads of the frenzied crew. Every one was eager to have one, and sprung to catch them, scuffling and struggling and making the parchment sound on his neighbor's head.
"Good! How is the niche opened where the priestling lies?" "There is the trunk of an elephant, carved where the largest stone of all begins to curve outward, on the side of the stone as you go outward from the courtyard." "On which side of the archway, then?" "On the left side, sahib. Press on the trunk downward and then pull; the stone swings outward.
The priestling was to turn courtier and perhaps soldier; Asti was to be exchanged for Turin, the seminary for the academy; and even the old chief of Donnaz betrayed in his grumbling counsels to the boy a sense of the exalted future in which they might some day serve him.
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