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You must come and see me one day, if you will, at my lake villa. It is a pleasant expedition, and a beautiful spot." He spoke excellent English with a slight accent. A thousand pities, thought Henry, that such a delightful person should be a heretic such a heretic as to have been unfrocked. Why, indeed, should any one be a heretic? Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange.
It is the unfrocked priest who said the Mass of the Champ-de-Mars, for the Fete de la Federation; it is the diplomat who directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the time of the murder of the Duke d'Enghien; it is the courtier, who, before he was Grand Chamberlain of Louis XVIII. and Charles X., was that of Napoleon. The banner is presented before the vault only by one end.
When I was a kid well, more of a kid than I am now I used to believe he really was a bishop unfrocked, of course, or ungaitered, or whatever they call it when they give a bishop the heave-ho.
His name is Grishka Otrepiev; it is the name by which he always has been known, and he is an unfrocked monk, all as I said, and the son of my brother's wife." "Then... then..." Boris was bewildered. Suddenly he understood. "And his father?" "Was Stephen Bathory, King of Poland. Grishka Otrepiev is King Stephen's natural son." Boris seemed to fight for breath for a moment.
When I denounced him the unfrocked monk Grishka Otrepiev, would not Sigismund have verified the statement had it been true?" "The brothers Nagoy, the uncles of the dead Demetrius..." Otrepiev was beginning, when again Boris interrupted him. "Their acknowledgment of him came after Sigismund's, after long after my denunciation." He broke into oaths. "I say you lie.
In the latter part of June, Hermann Stryoker or Modet, a monk who had renounced his vows to become one of the most popular preachers in the Reformed Church, addressed a congregation of seven or eight thousand persons in the neighborhood of Ghent. Peter Dathenus, another unfrocked monk, preached at various places in West Flanders, with great effect.
"There are two very good reasons why she should, under no circumstances, be his wife. In the first place, we are very safe in questioning Mr. Williamson's right to solemnize a marriage." "I have been ordained," cried the old rascal. "And also unfrocked." "Once a clergyman, always a clergyman." "I think not. How about the license?" "We had a license for the marriage. I have it here in my pocket."
For upwards of Six Months I was sumptuously entertained in his Lordship's Mansion in Red Lion Square; a Kind of Hospitality, indeed, which he was most profuse in the dispensation of: there being at the same time in the House a French Dancing-Master, an Italian Singer, a Newmarket Horse-Jockey, and a Domestic Chaplain, that had been unfrocked for too much fighting of Cocks and drinking of Cider with clowns at his Vicarage; but to whom the Earl of Modesley was always a fast friend.
In brief, this disinherited noble, this unfrocked priest, this disenchanted Liberal, was the complete expression of the inimitable society of the old régime, when quickened intellectually by Voltaire and dulled by the Terror. After doing much to destroy the old society, he was now to take a prominent share in its reconstruction on a modern basis.
The moment you try on being somewhere else, you're done for. In all this world nobody else comes to such unmerciful and universal grief as the unfrocked priest." The phrase sent Theron's fancy roving. "I know a Catholic priest," he said irrelevantly, "who doesn't believe an atom in in things." "Very likely," said Sister Soulsby. "Most of us do.
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