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"I am sure that my time is come. Good Edward, I beseech you, bring me a priest that he may shrive me." "There is no priest in all the castle walls, Francis Stafford. Know you not that priests and all such popery are forbid? I will call a chirurgeon." "Nay; do not so," said the girl. "What this weakness that has o'ertaken me may be, I know not, unless it be death.
Well, Avena, what has moved thee to bring a fresh face into this my dungeon, prithee? It should be somewhat of import." "Madame, this is my Lord's Grace elect of York, who, coming hither on his way southwards, mine husband counted it good for your Grace's soul to shrive you of his Grace's hand. My Lord, if your Grace have need of a crucifix, or of holy water, both be behind this curtain.
Next morning I made my confession to the old priest that, amongst other matters, he might shrive me of the blood which I had shed, though this he said needed no forgiveness from God or man, being, as I think, a stout Englishman at heart.
Fierce and wild are yon blood-dogs; and man must needs shrive soul and make will, if he will go to their kennel." "I feel sure that my bode will be safe," answered Harold: for Gryffyth has all the pride of a king, and, sparing neither man nor child in the onslaught, will respect what the Roman taught his sires to respect envoy from chief to chief as a head scatheless and sacred."
There was a profound silence now outside as the priest bent lower and lower till his lips almost touched the ear of the dying man; and every word of the broken abrupt sentences was audible to all in the room. "Ralph Ralph dear brother. You are at the point of death. I must shrive you. You have sinned very deeply against God and man. I shall anoint you afterwards.
I will acquaint thee with the whys and wherefores as we go. Nay, never mind the lamp, thou can'st say adieu to that. Our horses are tethered to a tree below, and thou must shrive a friend who is at death's door a priest. I have ridden throughout the livelong day to fetch thee. Art thou ready now?" "What, so soon? This is sudden indeed." "Aye, man, so soon.
Suddenly turning to a young brother who had lately joined the convent, he said to him, "And what of the pretty Clarice, my brother?" The blood flushed deep into the pale cheek of the young monk, and his frame shook with some interior emotion, as he answered, "She is recovering." "And she sent for thee to shrive her?"
A little group of Mexicans, riding northward with sullen faces, urged on their jaded ponies viciously as they thought of the gold that was to have been paid them for this morning's work, and of the gold that to-morrow night must go to pay the priest who should shrive them; and they had nothing gained wherewith to pay.
"You are required to shrive a dying man, Senor Padre," said an Indian who approached him. He was led towards the engine of death. There, beneath it, he found, pale with terror, and trembling in every limb, the corregidor, his patron. "They tell me, my son, that I am to perform the last offices of religion for the dying," said Padre Diogo.
Not a brother of the cloth could be found to take the father's place, and this loss proved exceedingly awkward to all at Haddon at this juncture. The Reformation had come in with so much vigour; the enactments against the Roman Catholics were so stringent, that not even another priest could be found to shrive him. The pendulum of fortune had indeed swung back again with a vengeance.
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