You have been porter ?" "Yes, father." "Exorcist ?" "Yes, father." "Reader ?" "Yes, father." "Acolyte ?" "Yes, father." "But have sworn no vow of constancy or chastity ?" "No, father." "Then you are free to follow a worldly life.

But let me hear, ere you start, what gifts you take away with you from Beaulieu?
Some I already know.

There is the playing of the citole and the rebeck.

Our choir will be dumb without you.

You carve too ?" The youth's pale face flushed with the pride of the skilled workman.
"Yes, holy father," he answered.