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"Well, in a way, it is about the Prioress. You know all about our financial difficulties, and you know they are not settled yet." "I thought that Sister Teresa's singing "
But presently he passed his hand over his eyes, as if to shut out some bright vision, and to turn his mind to more sober thought; and, at that moment, the stone in his ring gleamed a pale opal, threaded with flashes of green. The Prioress returned to the subject, with studied seriousness.
In that love she trusted; but with that love she had to deal, putting it from her with a finality which should be beyond question. Yet the "Prioress" fell from her, as she closed the panel. It was the Woman and the Saint who moved over to the window and stood beside the Knight, in the radiance of a golden sunset after storm.
Do your work, for I am sure that the end shall be far other than you think." "What!" said the Abbot, "has the foul fiend been with you again that you talk thus certainly? Well, Sorceress, soon you will sing another tune," and he went to the door and summoned the Prioress. "Put these women upon bread and water," he said, "and prepare them for the rack, that they may discover their accomplices."
"Not now, daughter, but you were very ill," answered the Prioress in her sweet, low voice. "Now we think that God has healed you." "How long have I been here?" she asked. The Mother began to reckon, counting her beads, one for every day for in such places time slips by but long before she had finished Emlyn replied quickly "Cranwell Towers was burned three weeks yesternight."
Why did you not come here at once?" "Why, indeed, did I not come here?" was all Evelyn could say. She seemed to lose all recollection, or at all events she had no wish to speak, and sat silent, brooding. "Of what is she thinking?" the Prioress asked herself, "or is she thinking of anything? She seems lost in a great terror, some sin committed. If she were to confess to me.
But we will also offer up devout petition that the Prioress may have clear light at this parting of the ways, and that our enterprise may be brought to a happy conclusion." So, presently, in the dimly-lighted chapel, the Knight knelt alone; while, away at the high altar, remote, wrapt, absorbed in the supreme act of his priestly office, stood the Bishop, celebrating mass.
The nuns, in a frightened crowd, filled the doorway, none daring to speak, or to enter; till old Mary Antony, pushing past the Sub-Prioress, kneeled down beside the Reverend Mother, and, lifting the hem of her robe, kissed it and pressed it to her breast. Slowly the Prioress let fall her arms. "Enter," she said; and they flocked in.
"No, Teresa, she came to me some weeks ago to tell me of her scruples." "Scruples! Her love of me, you mean?" "I see she has told you. Yes." The Prioress was about to ask her about her vows; but the present was not the moment to do so, and she allowed Evelyn to go back to the sacristy. "Veronica, she has gone away for good gone away to France. All I could do Now I am alone here, with nobody."
John had a pretty little white palfrey and two men-at-arms. There were two grooms, countrymen, who had run away on the onset of the thieves, but came sneaking back again, to be soundly rated by the Prioress, who threatened to send them home again or have them well scourged, but finally laughed and forgave them.
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