Priest
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'Do you believe in the teachings of the Holy Apostolic Church?' continued the priest, turning his eyes away and folding his hands beneath his stole.
The
priest
paused a few seconds to see whether Levin would say anything more, and then closing his eyes said rapidly, with a strong provincial accent:'Doubts are natural to human weakness, but we must pray that our merciful Lord will strengthen us.
I doubt everything and am in doubt nearly all the time.''Doubt is natural to human weakness,' repeated the
priest.
But they seemed to have no effect on the
priest.
'What doubt can you have of the Creator when you see His creation?' continued the
priest
in his rapid, stereotyped voice.
Levin felt that it would not be proper to enter into a philosophic discussion with a priest, and therefore merely replied to the direct questions,'I don't know.''You don't know?
'Then how can you doubt that God created everything?' said the
priest
in puzzled amazement.
The
priest
paused awhile as if in thought.
'A splendid young woman!''Yes,' answered Levin, with a blush for the
priest.
And as if in answer to the thought, the
priest
said:'You are about to enter into matrimony and God may give you children, is it not so?
The
priest
ceased and, with his head on one side, regarded Levin with mild kindly eyes.
This time Levin did not reply, not because he did not wish to enter upon a discussion with a priest, but because no one had ever yet put such questions to him; and also because, before his little one could begin asking such questions, there would be plenty of time to consider what the answers should be.
'You are entering upon a time of life,' the
priest
went on, 'when you must choose your path and keep to it, so pray that God in His goodness may help you and have mercy on you!' he concluded.
'May the Lord our God Jesus Christ, in the goodness and bounty of His love for mankind, pardon thee...'; and having pronounced the absolution, the
priest
blessed him and let him go.
The
priest
continually sent a chanter or deacon to see whether the bridegroom had arrived, and he himself, in his purple surplice with the embroidered girdle, went with increasing frequency to the side door in expectation of the bridegroom.
Meanwhile the clergy put on their vestments and the
priest
and deacon came forward to the lectern that stood near the entrance doors.
The
priest
turned to Levin and said something that Levin did not hear.
When at last he had taken her hand properly, the
priest
went a few steps in front of them and halted at the lectern.
The old priest, with his sacerdotal headgear and his locks of grey hair, glistening like silver, combed back behind his ears, drew his small old hands out from beneath his vestments of heavy silver cloth with a large gold cross on the back, and began turning over some pages on the lectern.
The
priest
lit two wax candles decorated with flowers, and holding them askew in his left hand so that the wax kept slowly dripping, turned to the young couple.
It was the same
priest
who had heard Levin's confession.
The handsome, tall senior deacon in a silver cloth alb, his curled hair parted down the middle, came briskly forward lifting his stole with a practised movement of two fingers, and stopped opposite the
priest.
'Blessed be our God, now and hereafter, for ever and ever!' replied the old
priest
meekly, in a sing-song voice, continuing to turn something over on the lectern.
Help is exactly what I need now!'When the deacon had finished the prayer for the Imperial family, the
priest
holding a book turned to the bride and bridegroom.
Again turning to the reading-desk the
priest
with some difficulty picked up Kitty's little ring, and asking Levin for his hand put the ring on the tip of his finger.
'The servant of God, Constantine, is betrothed to the servant of God, Catherine,' and having put a big ring on Kitty's slender, rosy finger, pathetic in its weakness, the
priest
repeated the same words.
Several times the couple tried to guess what was expected of them, and blundered each time, the
priest
prompting them in whispers.
'Thou hast from the beginning created them male and female,' read the
priest
when they had exchanged rings.
The choir began singing a psalm to some elaborate and complicated melody in which the bass and tenor continually repeated each other; and the priest, turning round, motioned the couple to the piece of pink silk.
'Put it quite on!' came the words of advice when the
priest
had put crowns on their heads and Shcherbatsky, his hand in its three-buttoned glove trembling, held the crown high above Kitty's head.
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