[The Secret Chamber at Chad by Evelyn Everett-Green]@TWC D-Link bookThe Secret Chamber at Chad CHAPTER VI: Watched! 25/32
Stay with us--stay at Chad.
There be ways and means both for hiding and for flight of which few know or dream.
Let us have this alms to do for our Lord, that we hide and save one of His servants.
Thou canst little know what grief and sorrow thou wouldst cause to us, or thou couldst not talk of giving thyself up." The boy's earnestness was so deep that it could not but produce an impression.
Although full of heroic courage and capabilities of self sacrifice, it was against human nature that Brother Emmanuel should desire to cast away his life, and that not by raising a protest for any point of conscience, but simply to be quietly put out of the way, that he might no longer expose the luxury and vice prevailing in the monastic retreat of which he was a member. He had seen a row of underground niches, some of which had been walled up; and tradition asserted that living monks had been thus buried alive for being untrue to their vows.
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