I did but lately know this thing.

Brother Emmanuel holds that the Church should ever be watching and waiting for her Lord, lest He come as a thief in the night.

He would have prayers ceaselessly ascending before Him.

It is his grief and pain that within the cloister walls, whence he has come, no true vigil is kept, but that sloth and ease have taken the place of watching and vigil and prayer.

And such a man as that they would have me deliver to his death!" "Art sure they mean him ill, my husband?
It seems scarce possible." "I am very sure that it is so," answered the knight, with a stern glance bent upon the sunny landscape beyond the open window.