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"Do you love Hugh?" again demanded the Bishop. And the Prioress lifted eyes full of suffering, reproach, and pain, but also full of courage and truth, to his face, and answered simply: "Alas, my lord, I do." The silence thereafter following was tense with conflict.
She stood for some moments leaning against the doorpost, her hand upon the latch, watching the furrowed face upon the pillow, gently slumbering; still illumined by a halo of sunset light. Then she opened the door, and passed out; closing it behind her. As the Prioress closed the door, Mary Antony opened one eye. Yea, verily! She was alone! She raised herself upon the couch, listening intently.
Torfrida went straight on, speaking to no one, not even to the prioress; and into Lady Godiva's chamber. There she dropped at the countess's feet, and laid her head upon her knees. "I am come, as you always told me I should do. But it has been a long way hither, and I am very tired." "My child! What is this? What brings you here?" "I am doing penance for my sins."
But Wulfhere had bade the men answer no questions till we had seen the bishop, lest false reports should go about the place. So the crowd melted away soon, and we knocked, asking admission, and showing the letter from the prioress of Bridgwater.
Here Dudda the Collier's task was ended, and I called him to me, pulling out the purse the good prioress had given me, that I might give him a gold piece for his faithful service. He stood before me, cap in hand, and I gave him a bright new coin, and he took it, turning it over curiously. "Take it, Dudda," I said, "you have earned it well."
"I understand that, Hilda; we all must act according to our lights. And now we must go to bed, we are breaking all the rules of the house." After breakfast Veronica came to Evelyn, saying that dear Mother would like to speak to her. Evelyn nodded, and went gaily to see the Prioress in her room on the ground-floor.
She had said these things, but how differently she had acted, forgetful of God, thinking only of Evelyn, and her vows, and not a little of the woman herself. The revelation was very sudden.... Sister Mary John seemed to find somebody in herself of whom she knew nothing, and a passion in herself unknown to her before. Therefore, to the Prioress she went at once to tell her everything.
The Prioress rose, folded her cloak, placed the book back upon the table; then kneeled before the shrine, took off her cross of office, and laid it upon our Lady's hand, from whence the little bird had flown. Then with bowed head, pale face, hands meekly crossed upon her breast, the Prioress knelt long in prayer.
And, sad to say, poor Sister Seraphine was sorely griped that night, and suffered many pangs. The Prioress knelt, in prayer and meditation, before the figure of the Virgin Mother holding upon her knees the holy Babe. Moonlight flooded the cell with a pure radiance.
On this hint, Mr Hunter seeks to discover, through this relationship, the original social position and family connections of the outlaw. He finds reason for believing, that the prioress of Kirklees at that period was a certain Elizabeth de Staynton, a member of a family of some note, established near Barnesdale. The Stayntons were tenants in chief of both the 'honours' of Tickhill and Pontefract.
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