Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 215
er secret evidence, for the verdictof the tribunal declared authoritatively thatthe said coffre contained preparations, pow-ders, by means of which the life of the saidBenedict was cut short. Degraded, tortured, condemned to thesame punishment from which he had rescuedso many, he was walled up… … CHAPTER VII THE ADVENTURES OF VER VERT I THE MISTLETOE QUEEN LJA! HA! cackled the Abbey parrot. *• ^ Canticum novum (a new song),novum, novum, ha! ha! ha! and the dia-boHcal bird burst into new songs indeed,which had never before wakened the echoes ofthat sacred cloister. They were ribald gleessuch…
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