Abbot
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"'Exceptis excipiendis'" replied the hermit, "as our old
abbot
taught me to say, when impertinent laymen should ask me if I kept every punctilio of mine order."
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The white
abbot
or the priest from the wu dang clan develops new techniques that turn him into iron.
In this fantastic retelling of that story, a prepubescent boy named Brendan, living in a monastery ruled by his uncle, a stern
abbot
who is worried preparing the defenses of the abbey from the impending attack by the feared vikings, must get into the forbidding surrounding forest to find the materials that a master illuminator named Aidan needs to finish the book.
"So be it," said Sancho; "let me speak now, for God knows what will happen by-and-by; and to take advantage of the permit at once, I ask, what made your worship stand up so for that Queen Majimasa, or whatever her name is, or what did it matter whether that
abbot
was a friend of hers or not? for if your worship had let that pass—and you were not a judge in the matter—it is my belief the madman would have gone on with his story, and the blow of the stone, and the kicks, and more than half a dozen cuffs would have been escaped."
Remember that Sanchico is now full fifteen, and it is right he should go to school, if his uncle the
abbot
has a mind to have him trained for the Church.
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