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Porto Ferrajo would soon be too hot to hold an honest man aye, or even an honest woman in the bargain." "But the Luterani do not confess, and are never shrived at all, you will remember." "San Stefano! How do they expect, then, ever to get to heaven?" "I will not answer that they do, friend Vito and we are certain that if they have such expectations they must be most treacherous to them.
It is a gentle quietus! and you ought to thank me for it! It is better than solitary imprisonment for life! I will give you absolution for taking it provided I see you swallow it before I go! and I will declare to the Church that I left you shrived of your sins, and clean! Half an hour after I leave you, you will sleep! and wake in Heaven! Make your choice!"
Two men passed into the boat of Antonio, and with officious zeal assisted the monk to resume his place in that of the Republic. "Is the penitent shrived?" half whispered one, seemingly the superior of the two. "Here is an error. He thou seek'st has escaped. This aged man is a fisherman named Antonio, and one who cannot have gravely offended St. Mark.
What more natural than that, when the life-spark goes out, the tortured soul should take possession of the vacant skull and triumph once more for a few hours while old friends look their last? It has had time to repent while compelled to crouch and behold the result of its work, and it has shrived itself into a state of comparative purity.
But that she bore his child she would have taken her own life for very trouble of heart; only for that child's sake she was fain to live and mature it when it should be born. Now after Sir Guy had made his toilsome pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and shrived him of his life, and done his prayers and penances about the holy places, he took his way to Antioch.
Now speak we of the Fair Maiden of Astolat that made such sorrow day and night that she never slept, ate, nor drank, and ever she made her complaint unto Sir Launcelot. So when she had thus endured a ten days, that she feebled so that she must needs pass out of this world, then she shrived her clean, and received her Creator. And ever she complained still upon Sir Launcelot.
According to her custom, the Lady Imogene yet remained, and knelt before the tomb of her brother. A low whisper, occasionally sounding,-assured her that someone was at the confessional; and soon the palmer, who was now shrived, knelt at her side. 'Lothair! muttered the lady, apparently at her prayers, 'beloved Lothair, thou art too bold!
But if, O Ruler of Nations, in whose sight the ages are as moments, and generations but as sands in the sea, these lives are doomed, may the death expiate their sins, and, shrived on the battle-field, absolve and receive the souls!" By the altar of the Abbey Church of Waltham, that night, knelt Edith in prayer for Harold.
The scene in which he is shrived by the Carmelite monk, in his boat, under the midnight moon, upon the Lagoons, is one of the finest we know of in the whole range of the literature of fiction, leaving upon the mind a lasting impression of solemn and pathetic beauty. In "The Chainbearer," the Yankee squatter, Thousandacres, is a repulsive figure, but drawn with a powerful pencil.
Wilt thou try thy hand?" "In sooth," said Little John, still in the old man's voice, "I ha' never done such a thing before; but an a sixpence is to be earned so easily I might as well ha' it as anybody. But, Your Worship, are these naughty fellows shrived?" "Nay," said the Sheriff, laughing, "never a whit; but thou mayst turn thy hand to that also if thou art so minded.
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