it is along of the for peter a a learned and no it stoutly to the and the hearth what knows peter a and what know i i take not on me to we can command the saints and will thej thej can draw m their remains bat i see that the patient drinking in is often as bj a charm doubtless faith in the is for much ih all these bat so twas a sick woman that all the failed to cure did but touch christ s garment and was healed in a moment had she not touched that sacred piece of doth she had been healed had she without not touched it only but worn it to her i she had been none the better for t but we do ill to search these things too all we see us calls for faith haye then a little patience i we shall soon know all meantime i thy for the do strictly forbid thee on thy soul s health to learned lay folk on things religious is their with it shut s open door in own mind i say learned ones haye often been my masters in humility and may be thine thy wound is cared for in three days be but a and now speed thee and the saints make thee as good and as happy as thou art beautiful and gracious hoped there was no need to part yet for he was to in the but father told him with a shade of regret just perceptible and no more that he did not his cell this week being himself in and with this he took s head delicately in both hands and kissed him on the brow and almost before the cell door had closed on him was back to his pious offices went away chilled to the heart by the of the life and too he thought here is a kind face i must look to see again on earth a kind gone from mine ear and my heart there is nothing but meeting and parting in this sorrowful world well a well a this mood was interrupted by a young who came for him and took him to the there he found seated at a table and standing like a being examined as to the he should pass through the then their knowledge and marked out the route noting all the religious houses on or near that road and this they then supper and after it the old carried to his cell aud they had an eager chat and the incidentally the cause of his in the corridor ye had well nigh fallen into s yon was his cell is father an ill man then an ill man and the crossed himself a saint an the yery pillar of this house i he had sent ye to nay i forgot y are bound for italy the old � saint upon earth had sent ye to or but was bom old aud with a and i were once and wicked beyond anything you can imagine wore a somewhat incredulous look this keeps us humble more or less and makes us reasonably to youth and hot blood then at s earnest request one more strain upon the and so to bed the troubled spirit and the sore heart soothed x haye described in full this day marked only by contrast a day that came like oil on waves after so many passions and perils � because it must stand in this as the representative of many such days which now succeeded to it for our on their weary way that which most of my readers will find in the longer journey of life that stirring are not distributed oyer the whole road but come by fits and starts and as it were in clusters to some extent this may be because they draw one another by links more or less subtle but there is more in it than that it happens so life is an now all whether of history or fiction are compelled to these barren portions of time or else line trunks the practice to the reader a wrong impression which there is a particular reason for in these pages as r as possible i therefore your intelligence to my ud and ask you to try and realize that although there were no more for a long while one day s march succeeded another one after another fed and lodged them with a welcome always charitable sometimes genial and though they met no enemy but winter and rough weather not always contemptible yet they oyer a much larger tract of territory than that their passage which i haye described so and so the pair in the face and stained from head to foot and with his shoes in stiff and both of them drew near the fix � chapter was almost as eager for this promised land as for the latter constantly its praises and at little annoyance showed him they did better in and above all played on his by clean bed clothes at the of that polished nation i ask no more the would say to think that i haye not lain once in a naked bed since i left home i when i look at their linen instead of habit and nose it is mine eyes and nose i would fain be shut of carried his of country so far as to walk twenty in shoes that had exploded rather than buy of a german who would throw all manner of obstacles in a customer s way his his dinner his body towards sunset they found at equal distances from a little town and a only the latter was off the road was for the inn for the gave way but on condition that once in they should always stop at an inn consented to this the more readily that his with 