We were about to separate as we met you." "Then we will thankfully accept your guidance, sir," said the priest gravely.
An impulse seized upon Robin as he was about to say good-day, though he was ashamed of it five minutes later as a modest lad would be.

Yet he followed it now; he leapt off his horse and, holding Cecily's rein in his arm, kneeled on the stones with both knees.
"Your blessing, sir," he said to the priest.

And Anthony eyed him with astonishment.
III Robin was moved, as he rode home over the high moors, and down at last upon the woods of Matstead, in a manner that was new to him, and that he could not altogether understand.

He had met travelling priests before; indeed, all the priests whose masses he had ever heard, or from whom he had received the sacraments, were travelling priests who went in peril; and yet this young man, upon whose consecrated hands the oil was scarcely yet dry, moved and drew his heart in a manner that he had never yet known.

It was perhaps something in the priest's face that had so affected him; for there was a look in it of a kind of surprised timidity and gentleness, as if he wondered at himself for being so foolhardy, and as if he appealed with that same wonder and surprise to all who looked on him.