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"Higher service," said the Prioress, her face still hidden. "Higher service? Can it be that the Holy Father really speaks of the return to earthly love and marriage, the pleasures of the world, and the joys of home life, as 'higher service'?" The grief, the utter disillusion, the dismayed question in her tone, moved the Bishop to compunction.
And as the hood fell back the Prioress found herself looking into a face she had not thought to see again in life the face of him who once had been her lover. "Hugh!" exclaimed the Prioress. And again, in utter bewilderment: "Hugh?"
Item, she has on her neck a long silken band, in English a lace, which hangs down below her breast and there on a golden ring with one diamond. Is it not Madame Eglentyne to the life? Nothing escaped our good Dan Chaucer's eye, for all that he rode always looking on the ground. Moreover, it was not only in her dress that the Prioress and her sister nuns aped the fashions of the world.
Even the ribaldry of the low characters is different: the Reeve, the Miller, and the Cook are several men, and distinguished from each other as much as the mincing Lady- Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed Wife of Bath. . . . It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
You will reach Mora, at longest, five days from this. As soon as she decides what she will do, send word to me by a fast messenger. Should she elect to return to the Nunnery, state when and where, upon the road, I am to meet her. Her habit as Prioress, and her cross of office, I have here. The former you returned to me, from the hostel; the latter I found in her cell. You must take them with you.
'She wonnes at Greystone with the wild Prioress Selby, who lost her out hawking. Her father is a black Yorkist. I saw him up to his stirrups in blood at St. Albans! 'But sure my boy did not make himself known to her? exclaimed the lady. 'I trow not.
'And how fares the good Mother Prioress? asked the Lord of Peelholm. 'Alack! she is woefully ill when the fever takes her, and she is wasted away so that you would scarce know her; but this is one of the better days, and if you, sir, will come into the parlour, she will see you. She was arraying herself as I came down.
"The Lord bless thee, and keep thee; and grant unto thee grace and strength to choose and to do the harder part, when the harder part is His will for thee." After which: "Benedictio Domini sit vobiscum," said the Bishop; and made the sign of the cross over the bowed head of the Prioress. Symon, Bishop of Worcester, had bidden Sir Hugh d'Argent to sup with him at the Palace.
But Marie Antoinette did not raise her hand to receive it, but shook her head as if in refusal, and yet with so eager a motion that her elaborate coiffure fairly trembled. "I beg your pardon, madame," said she, earnestly, "but I cannot receive this letter from the prioress of the Carmelite convent at St.
Father La Combe then set off for Annecy, and on his arrival found the Bishop prepossessed, and in an ill humor. This was the substance of the discourse. BISHOP You must absolutely engage this lady to give what she has to the house at Gex, and make her the prioress of it. F. LA COMBE My lord, you know what she has told you herself of her vocation, both at Paris and in this country.
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