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CHAPTER IV—IN THE ABBEY CHURCH
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In Shoreby Abbey Church the prayers were kept up all night without cessation, now with the singing of psalms1, now with a note or two upon the bell.
Rutter, the spy, was nobly waked. There he lay, meanwhile, as they had arranged him, his dead hands crossed upon his bosom2, his dead eyes staring on the roof; and hard by, in the stall, the lad who had slain3 him waited, in sore disquietude, the coming of the morning.
Once only, in the course of the hours, Sir Oliver leaned across to his captive.
“Richard,” he whispered, “my son, if ye mean me evil, I will certify4, on my soul’s welfare, ye design upon an innocent man. Sinful in the eye of Heaven I do declare myself; but sinful as against you I am not, neither have been ever.”
“My father,” returned Dick, in the same tone of voice, “trust me, I design nothing; but as for your innocence5, I may not forget that ye cleared yourself but lamely6.”
“A man may be innocently guilty,” replied the priest. “He may be set blindfolded7 upon a mission, ignorant of its true scope. So it was with me. I did decoy your father to his death; but as Heaven sees us in this sacred place, I knew not what I did.”
“It may be,” returned Dick. “But see what a strange web ye have woven, that I should be, at this hour, at once your prisoner and your judge; that ye should both threaten my days and deprecate my anger. Methinks, if ye had been all your life a true man and good priest, ye would neither thus fear nor thus detest9 me. And now to your prayers. I do obey you, since needs must; but I will not be burthened with your company.”
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psalms
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descried
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scarlet
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wager
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attire
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velvet
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embroidery
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doffed
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bent
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astounded
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swell
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nave
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pawn
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choir
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murmur
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eddies
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followers
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bloody
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