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Now very quietly and by the side door they were entering the old reception-hall, that was only used for the entertainment of visitors and on other great occasions, and close to them saw the Abbot seated in his chair, while the Prioress stood before him, rendering her accounts. "Whether you can spare it or no," they heard him say sharply, "I must have the half-year's rent.
The Prioress tried to propitiate him, by drawing from her pocket a piece of linen, which, being unfolded, revealed a placenta a delicacy which the nuns of several convents were specially famed for making, and the nature of which will be better known to an ordinary reader by the explanatory term cheese-cake. Geoffrey graciously accepted the placenta, but utterly declined all further intimacy.
Therefore, her mind now purged of its discontent, she cheerfully supped old Antony's broth, and applied the soothing balsam; yet planning the while, to gain favour with the Prioress, by repeating to her, at the first convenient opportunity, the naughty remarks concerning Mother Sub-Prioress, now being made for her diversion, by the kind old woman who had risked reproof, in order to bring to her, in her disgrace, both food and consolation.
Such thoughts would have seemed out of place with the memory of the gentle countenance of love, good-will and peace, and as Harry and Anne joined in the service that the Prioress had requested to have in the early daylight before starting, Hal felt that to the hermit saint of his boyhood he verily owed his own self. And now am I an Earlis son, And not a banished man.
Now Robin had done much to aid this cousin of his; for it was through King Richard's love of him that she had been made prioress of the place.
"Call the woman in." Ursula Felstede was called in, and stood courtesying at the door. Sir John put on his stern and pompous manner in speaking to her. "It seemeth best to the Queen's Grace's Commission," said he, "that these children were sent in the keeping of the Sisters of Hedingham: yet as time may elapse ere the Prioress cometh to town, we leave them in thy charge until she send for them.
"He answers well." Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the vocal mother: "She will grow up ugly." The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said: "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be required now."
"Of course, Sister Teresa's singing has done us a great deal of good, but the collections have fallen off considerably; and, as for the rich Catholics who were to pay off our debts, they are like the ships coming from the East, but whose masts have not yet appeared above the horizon." "But does the Prioress still believe that these rich Catholics will come to her aid?"
"Angry, my son? And wherefore should I be angry?" "That I should have sought, and should still be seeking, to tempt the Prioress to wrong-doing." The Bishop's questioning gaze took on a brightness which almost became the light of sublime contempt. "You tempt her?" he said. "Tempt her to wrong-doing! The man lives not, who could succeed in that!
I heard, not an hour ago, that Sister Antony had boasted that with a turn of her thumb and finger she could, any night, send Mother Sub-Prioress to Purgatory." "Who said that of me?" stuttered Mary Antony. "Who said it, Reverend Mother?" "A little bird," murmured the Prioress. "A little bird, dear Antony; but not thy pretty robin.
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