But, if you, father, command it, be it as you will." "Why, thou child of vanity, the remains on which thou lookest are but the earthly attire of those who, in their day, led or followed in the pursuit of worldly pleasure.

And such shalt thou be, for all thy mincing and ambling, thy piping and thy harping--thou, and all such ministers of frivolous and worldly pleasure, must become like these poor bones, whom thy idle nicety fears and loathes to look upon." "Say not with idle nicety, reverend father," answered the glee maiden, "for, Heaven knows, I covet the repose of these poor bleached relics; and if, by stretching my body upon them, I could, without sin, bring my state to theirs, I would choose that charnel heap for my place of rest beyond the fairest and softest couch in Scotland." "Be patient, and come on," said the monk, in a milder tone, "the reaper must not leave the harvest work till sunset gives the signal that the day's toil is over." They walked forward.

Brother Cyprian, at the end of a long gallery, opened the door of a small apartment, or perhaps a chapel, for it was decorated with a crucifix, before which burned four lamps.

All bent and crossed themselves; and the priest said to the minstrel maiden, pointing to the crucifix, "What says that emblem ?" "That HE invites the sinner as well as the righteous to approach." "Ay, if the sinner put from him his sin," said the monk, whose tone of voice was evidently milder.

"Prepare thyself here for thy journey." Louise remained an instant or two in the chapel, and presently reappeared in a mantle of coarse grey cloth, in which she had closely muffled herself, having put such of her more gaudy habiliments as she had time to take off in the little basket which had before held her ordinary attire.
The monk presently afterwards unlocked a door which led to the open air.
They found themselves in the garden which surrounded the monastery of the Dominicans.
"The southern gate is on the latch, and through it you can pass unnoticed," said the monk.