"If the good father can get me off the services, from eight till six, you can be with me all that time, save at the dinner hour.

You have but a short time to learn in, and must give yourself heartily to it.
"There is the chapel bell ringing, now, and I must be off.

The abbot will not be present at this service, Father; and if you will, you can see him now.

I doubt not that he will grant your request, for I know that I anger him, every time I am in chapel.

I am fond of music, and I have a voice like a bull; and, do what I will, it will come out in spite of me; and he says that my roaring destroys the effect of the whole choir." So saying, he strode away.
"Do you wait outside the gates, my son," the priest said.