ngely, our friendship, Albert, served to confirm them."

"Explain thy meaning."

"Out of my love to thee, and as a remembrancer for myself, I had made
a note in my pocket-book of the time and place of thy admission into
the holy Catholic Church, of the taking of thy scapula, and of thy
degrees, whereunto I had appended no name. This book escaping from my
pocket, was found and delivered to my judges, and considered pregnant
proof against me."

"The writing was a great imprudence," said the stranger.

"_Confiteor_, and whatever shame I may have endured I accept as the
fitting punishment of my sins. Alas! my individual sorrows are
swallowed up in grief at the thought of the condition of the Church.
How doth she sit like a widow in affliction! The flood-gates of error
are opened, and the world is deluged with impure streams. When I look
on the marble images of the crusaders, lying with crossed legs upon
their tombs around us, and on the cold faces of the abbots and mitred
bishops, standing in solemn dignity in their niches, they seem
saddened and indignant at a reverse that hath changed the very temple
erected by Catholic piety over their ashes, and wherein the incense of
acceptable worship was offered unto the Lord, into a place of resort
for impious and deluded heretics with their tasteless rites. Here,
with these mournful monitors around me, I cannot indulge in private
resentment while my heart is breaking for the sufferings of my
people."

"It is a holy and a commendable frame of mind, my brother," said the
stranger. "O, if the spirit that animates thee were universal in our
order, how might the wilderness of the world be made to blossom as the
Rose of Sharon, and the lamentations of Sion be converted into songs
of deliverance!"

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