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There were little manuals in questions and answers, pamphlets of aggressive tone after the manner of Monsieur de Maistre, and certain novels in rose-coloured bindings and with a honied style, manufactured by troubadour seminarists or penitent blue-stockings.
"He cannot by any means!" exclaimed the wandering seminarists, together. "Keep quiet, you shpilmen!" said the abbot; "you are not ecclesiastics, although your heads are shaved." "We are not 'shpilmen, but courtiers of Your Grace," answered one of them, looking toward a large bucket from which the smell of hops and malt was filling the air. "Look! He is talking from a barrel!" exclaimed the abbot.
Kingsley has written a book about these adventurers; a very good book it is; but his pictures are marred with the touch of the ecclesiastic we need not suppose that the young men sat always Bible in hand, talked like seminarists, or thought like curates. The rovers who sailed with Drake and Raleigh had their religion, like their rations, served out to them. Sailors always do.
"Remember, also, my dear son," said Father d'Aigrigny, gravely, "that I calmed your scruples, and told you that a priest, who is bound to hear everything under the seal of confession, must be able to know and appreciate everything; and that our Company imposes the task of reading this Compendium, as a classical work, upon young deacons seminarists, and priests, who are destined to be confessors."
I am healthy and strong, and get on well enough." "You said that the Bishop found a wife for you," I remarked. "I suppose, therefore, that he was a great friend of yours." "Not at all. The Bishop does the same for all the seminarists who wish to be ordained: it is an important part of his pastoral duties." "Indeed!" I exclaimed in astonishment.
There were little manuals in questions and answers, pamphlets of aggressive tone after the manner of Monsieur de Maistre, and certain novels in rose-coloured bindings and with a honied style, manufactured by troubadour seminarists or penitent blue-stockings.
The seminarists resumed possession of the now vacant house of Madame de la Peltrie. The progress of God's work was partially checked about this time by the growing passion of the Indians for intoxicating drinks, and their increased facility for procuring them.
Another deputy, a friend of the Prior at San Beda, to whom I had a letter, was very ill with typhoid fever. I knew not where to turn. I could not knock at the doors of strangers without credentials. Then I remembered that one with whom I had been friends, great friends, when we were both seminarists, had become a great man at the Vaticano.
Two boys, dressed like pages, conducted her horse. Four servants were riding behind with the abbot's seminarists, who were armed with swords and carried their lutes. Zbyszko admired all the retinue, but especially Jagienka, who looked like a picture. The abbot, who was dressed in a red cloak, having enormous sleeves, resembled a traveling prince.
With the free and joyous step of a vigorous youth not yet tamed to complete self-obliteration, next there stepped forth into the sun a group of seminarists. In the lace and scarlet of their bright robes they were like unto so many young kings.
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