hat He can spare
you? Trust me, the thanksgivings that God loves best, are those sobbed
from lips that cannot keep still for sorrow.

"And, brethren, there is no sorrow in Heaven. `Death there shall be no
more, neither sorrow, nor crying, nor pain shall be any more.' [Note
3.] We who are Christ's shall be there before long."

He ended thus, almost abruptly.

The chapel was empty, and the congregation were critical. Earl Hubert
thought that Father Bruno had a good flow of language, and could preach
an excellent discourse. The Countess would have preferred a different
subject: it was so melancholy! Sir John thought it a pity that man had
been wasted on the Church. Hawise supposed that he had said just what
was proper. Beatrice wished he would preach every day. Eva was
astonished at her; did she really like to listen to such dolorous stuff
as that? Doucebelle wondered that any one should think it dolorous; she
had enjoyed it very much. Marie confessed to having dropped asleep, and
dreamed that Father Bruno gave her a box of bonbons.

There was one of them who said nothing, because her heart was too full
for speech. But the south wind had begun to blow upon the garden. On
that lonely and weary heart God had looked in His mercy that day, and
had said, "Live!"

Too late for earthly life. That was sapped at the root. God knew that
His best kindness to Margaret de Burgh was that He should take her away
from the evil to come.

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Note 1. Burnt to the pan: a variety of porridge which few would wish to
taste twice.

Note 2. "These monks imagined that holiness was often proportioned to a
saint's filthiness--Saint Francis discovered, by certain experience,
that the devils... were animated by clean clothing to tempt and seduce
the wearers; and one of their heroes declares that the purest souls are
in the dirtiest bodies... Brother Juniper was a gentleman perfectly
pious, on this principle; indeed, so great was his merit in this species
of mortification, that a brother declared he could always nose Brother
Juniper when within a mile of the monastery, provided the wind were at
the due point."--Disraeli's _Curiosities of Literature_, Volume One,
page 92.

Note 3. All quotations from Scripture in this story are of course taken
from the Vulgate, except those made by Jews.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN.

EVIL TIDINGS.

"Too tired for raptur